The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s7.15

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Of all these brothers the youngest Gaṇḍarāditya seems to have been the most famous. He is the donor, as indicated above, in the grant published by Paṇḍit Bhagvānlāl Indraji,² and in others recorded on stone at Kolhāpur and in the districts. His dates are Śaka 1032, 1040, 1058.³ He ruled over the country of Miriñja along with the seven Khollas and over Konkan, which thus seems to have been subjugated by the Kolhāpur Śilāhāras before 1032. Probably it was added to their dominious in the time of Goṅka or soon after. From the grant of Bhoja II. it appears that the part of Konkan ruled over by the Dekkan Śilāhāras was the same as that which was in the possession of the family mentioned in the Khārepāṭaṇ grant,⁴ wherefore it follows that the Śilāhāras of southern Konkan were uprooted by their kinsmen of the Kolhāpur districts. Gaṇḍarāditya fed a hundred thousand Brāhmans at Prayāga. This must be the place of that name which is situated near Kolhāpur ; and not the modern Allahābād. He built a Jaina temple at Ājareṁ, a village in the Kolhāpur districts,⁵ and constructed a large tank, called after him Gaṇḍasamudra or "the sea of Gaṇḍa," at Irukuḍi in the Miraj district, and on its margin placed idols of Īśvara or Śiva, Buddha, and Arhat (Jina), for the maintenance of each of which he assigned a piece of land. Several other charities of his, in which the Jainas also had their share, are mentioned, and his bountiful nature as well as good and just government are extolled.⁶ He first resided at a place called Tiravāḍa and afterwards at Valavāṭa, which has been identified with the present Valavḍeṁ.⁷