[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s3.205 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.205 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.205 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.205) Trade and commerce must also have been in a flourishing condition during this early period. Ships from the western countries came, according to the author of the Periplus, to Barugaza or Bharukachchha, the modern Bharoch; and the merchandize brought by them was thence carried to the inland countries. Onyx stone in large quantities from Paithan, and ordinary cottons, muslins, mallow-coloured cottons, and other articles of local production from Tagara, were carried in waggons to Barugaza and thence exported to the west. Paithan is placed by the author of the Periplus at the distance of twenty days' journey to the south of Barugaza, and is spoken of as the greatest city in Dakhinabades or Dakshinapatha, and Tagara, ten days' east of Paithan. This town has not yet been identified. Its name does not occur in any of the cave inscriptions, but it is mentioned in a copper-plate grant of the first half of the seventh century; and princes of a dynasty known by the name of Silahara call themselves "sovereigns of Tagara, the best of towns," in all their grants. Some have identified it with Devagiri and others with Junnar, but in both cases its bearing from Paithan as given by the Greek geographers has not been taken into account. I have elsewhere discussed the question, and have proposed Dharur in the Nizam's territory as the site of the ancient city. The other sea-port towns mentioned in the Periplus are Souppara, the modern Suparem or Supara near Bassein and the Sorparaka of the inscriptions and the Puranas, where interesting Buddhistic relics were dug out by Mr. Campbell and Pandit Bhagvanlal; Kalliena, the modern Kalyan, which must have been a place of great commercial importance since a good many of the donors whose names are inscribed in the caves at Kanheri and some mentioned in the caves at Junnar were merchants residing in Kalyan;\[2\] Semulla identified with Chembur by some and with Chaul by others; Mandagora, very likely the same as the modern Mandad, originally Mandagada, situated on the Rajapuri creek near Kudem where we have the caves; Palaipatmai, which probably was the same as Pal which is near Mahad; Melizeigara, the second part of the name which can at once be recognized as Jayagad and which must be identified with that place whatever the first part Meli may mean; Buzantion, and others. Buzantion is probably the Vaijayanti\[3\] of the inscriptions, but with what modern town it is to be identified it is difficult to say. Vaijayanti is mentioned in the Kadamba copper-plates translated by Mr. Telang,\[4\] and was most probably some place in North Kanara. - [Previous: c8.s3.204](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.204) - [Next: c8.s3.206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.206) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Cites (1) - [Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.205) · Pramāṇa