[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.s5.5 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.5 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.5 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5.5) ² The edition of the Vratakhaṇḍa in the Bibliotheca Indica contains neither of these two very valuable and important Praśastis. I have therefore had recourse to manuscripts. There is one manuscript only in the Government collections deposited in the Library of the Dekkan College and that is No. 234 of Collection A of 1881-82 which was made by me. It contains the shorter Praśasti beginning with the reign of Bhillama. There is another copy in the collection belonging to the old Sanskrit College of Poona, which contains the longer Praśasti. Unfortunately, however, the third and fourth leaves of the manuscript are missing; and the second ends with Parammadeva the successor of Seuṇachandra II., while the fifth begins with some of the last stanzas of the introduction referring to Hemâdri and his works. The valuable portion therefore was in leaves 3 and 4; but that is irretrievably lost. I have therefore endeavoured to procure copies from the private collections in the city of Poona and obtained one from Khâsgivâle's library. It contains the shorter Praśasti only. My learned friend Gaṅgâdhar S'âstri Dâtâr procured another. In it the two, the shorter one and the longer, are jumbled together. There are in the commencement the first seventeen stanzas of the shorter, and then the longer one begins; and after that is over, we have the remaining stanzas of the shorter. This is the only manuscript of the four now before me which contains the whole of the longer Praśasti, and the information it gives about the later princes of the dynasty known to us from the inscriptions is also valuable and new, but the manuscript is extremely incorrect. I therefore caused a search for other copies to be made at Nâsik, Kolhâpur, and Ahmedabad; but none was available at those places. I give the two Praśastis in Appendix C. \[Since the first edition was published I have obtained and purchased another copy of the Vratakhaṇḍa for the Government collections. The introductory portion here is more correctly written, and I have used it in revising this section and the Praśasti in Appendix C.\] - [Previous: c8.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5.4) - [Next: c8.s5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5.6) - [Up: c8.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s5.5) · Pramāṇa