The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.96

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In another Nâsik cave there are four inscriptions. In the first we are told that the cave was caused to be constructed on mount Triraśmi in Govardhana or the Nâsik District by the benevolent Ushavadâta, the son-in-law of king Kshaharâta Nahapâna and son of Dînîka. Ushavadâta gave away three hundred thousand cows; constructed flights of steps on the river Bârnâśayâ; assigned sixteen villages to gods and Brâhmans; fed a hundred thousand Brâhmans every year; got eight Brâhmans at Prabhâsa or Somanâth Pattan married at his own expense; constructed quadrangles, houses, and halting places at Bharukachchha or Bharoch, Daśapura in Mâlvâ, Govardhana, and S'orpâraga, the modern Supârâ near Bassein; made gardens and sank wells and tanks; placed ferry boats over the Ibâ, Pârâdâ, Damanâ, Tâpî, Karabenâ, and Dâhanukâ, which were rivers along the coast between Thânâ and Surat; constructed rest-houses and endowed places for the distribution of water to travellers on both sides of these rivers; and founded certain benefactions in the village of Nânamgola, for the Charanas and Parishads (Vedic schools of Brâhmans) in Pinditakâvada, Govardhana, Suvarnamukha, S'orpâraga, and Râmatîrtha. One year in the rainy season he marched at the command of his lord to the relief of the chief of a tribe of Kshatriyas called Uttamabhadras, who had been attacked and besieged by the Mâlayas. At the sound of his martial music the Mâlayas fled away, and they were made the subjects of the Uttamabhadras. Thence he went to Poshkarani and there performed ablutions and gave three thousand cows and a village.¹