[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.s3.76 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.76 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.76 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.76) to the Râshṭikas and the Peṭenikas and to the Aparântas.¹ The last which we know best is Northern Konkan, the capital of which was Sûrparaka. Peṭenikas is not unlikely the same as Paiṭhaṇakas, \*i.e.\*, the people or country about Paiṭhaṇa on the Godâvarî. The vernacular pronunciation of the name of the city, which in Sanskrit is Pratishṭhâna, was in those days, as it now is, Peṭhaṇa or Paiṭhaṇa, for both the author of the Periplus and Ptolemy call it Paiṭhana or Baithana. The Râshṭikas, or, according to the Mansehra version, Raṭrakas, corresponding to the Sanskrit Râshṭrikas, were very likely the people of Mahârâshṭra, for a tribe of the name of Raṭṭas has from the remotest times held political supremacy in the Dekkan. One branch of it assumed the name of Râshṭrakûṭas and governed the country before the Châlukyas acquired power. It re-established itself after about three centuries, but had to yield to the Châlukyas again after some time. In later times, chieftains of the name of Raṭṭas governed Sugandhavarti or Saundatti in the Belgaum districts. In the thirteenth Edict in which the countries where Asoka's moral edicts were respected are enumerated, the Peṭenikas are associated with Bhojas instead of Râshṭikas. Bhojas, we know, ruled over the country of Vidarbha or Berâr² and also in other parts of the Dekkan. In the inscriptions in the caves at Kuḍâ,³ the name "Mahâbhoja" or Great Bhoja occurs several times, and once in an inscription at Beḍsâ. Just as the Bhojas called themselves Mahâbhojas, the Râshṭrikas, Raṭṭis, Raṭṭhis, or Raṭṭhas called themselves Mahâraṭṭhis or Mahâraṭṭhas, as will be shown below, and thus the country in which they lived came to be called Mahâraṭṭha, the Sanskrit of which is Mahârâshṭra. In the second and the thirteenth edicts, the countries of the Cholas, Pândyas, Keṭalaputras (Chera or Kerala), and the Andhras and Pulindas are mentioned. Thus about a hundred years before Patanjali, the whole of the southern peninsula up to Cape Comorin was in direct communication with the north, and the Dekkan or Mahârâshṭra had regular kingdoms governed by Raṭṭas and Bhojas. - [Previous: c8.s3.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.75) - [Next: c8.s3.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.77) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kuda Caves](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.monument.kuda-caves) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.76) · Pramāṇa