The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.7

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Subāhu who belonged to the Yādava race was a universal sovereign. He had four sons among whom he divided the whole earth ruled over by him. The second son Dridhaprahāra² became king in the south or Dekkan. The Yādavas, it is stated, were at first lords of Mathurā; then from the time of Kṛishṇa they became sovereigns of Dvāravatī or Dvārakā; and came to be rulers of the south from the time of the son of Subāhu, viz. Dridhaprahāra. His capital was Śrīnagara according to the Vratakhaṇḍa, while from the grant it appears to have been a town of the name of Chandrādityapura, which may have been the modern Chāmdor in the Nāsik district. He had a son of the name of Seunachandra who succeeded to the throne. The country over which he ruled was called Seunades'a³ after him, and he appears to have founded a town also of the name of Seunapura. Seunades'a was the name of the region extending from Nāsik to Devagiri, the modern Daulatābād, since later on we are told that Devagiri was situated in Seunades'a and that this latter was situated on the confines of Daṇḍakāraṇya.⁴ This name seems to be preserved in the modern Khāndes'. In a footnote on the opening page of the Khāndes' Volume, the Editor of the "Bombay Gazetteer" observes that the name of the country was older than Musalman times, and it was afterwards changed by them to suit the title of Khān given to the Fāruki kings by Ahmed I. of Gujarāt. Seunades'a, therefore, was very likely the original name and it was changed to Khāndes', which name soon came into general use on account of its close resemblance in sound to Seunades'a. The country however extended farther southwards than the present district of Khāndes', since it included Devagiri or Daulatābād, and probably it did not include the portion north of the Tāpī.