[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.s3.90 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.90 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.90 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.90) Paithan also must have been the capital of a kingdom about the time. In the inscriptions in the caves at Pitalkhorâ near Châlisgâmv, which from the forms of the characters in which they are engraved must be referred to the second century before Christ, the religious benefactions of merchants from Pratishṭhâna are recorded, as well as those of the physician to the king and of his son and daughter.¹ The king referred to must be the ruler of Pratishṭhâna or Paithan. No more particular information is available. On the history of the early centuries of the Christian era and the first century previous, however, the inscriptions in the cave-temples on the top of the Sahyâdri throw a good deal of light. I will here bring together the information deducible from them, noticing the inscriptions in the chronological order clearly determined by the forms of the characters. - [Previous: c8.s3.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.89) - [Next: c8.s3.91](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.91) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.90) · Pramāṇa