The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c6.s7.t3.2

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The bhoga and bhāga apparently appear in Vākāṭaka records as a subdivision of the rājya. In the Chendalūr plates of Kumāra-viṣṇu II Kavachakāra-bhoga is a part of Karmāṅka-rāṣṭra, also known as Kammaka-raṭha, Kamma-rāṣṭra, Kammāṅka-rāṣṭra, Karma-rāṣṭra, or Kamma-nāṇḍu-viṣaya (parts of Nellore and Guṇṭūr). Bhoga as part of a viṣaya occurs in the Jejūrī plates of Vinayāditya (A.D. 687). In that record a village on the north bank of the river Nīrā (Nīrā-nady-uttara-taṭasthah) is placed in the Sātimāḷa-bhoga, in the Paḷayaṭṭhāṇa(Phaltan)-viṣaya. The bhoga is, however, at times synonymous with viṣaya. The Vaṭanagara-bhoga (Vaḍner) in the Chāndvaḍ tāluk of Nāsik mentioned in the Vaḍner plates of Buddharāja, A.D. 608, is referred to in the Waṇī grant of A.D. 807 as Vaṭanagara-viṣaya. A Śrīnilaya-bhoga is mentioned in a grant of 616-17. It lay on the south bank of the Bhaimarathī or the Bhīmā, but we have no specific mention of the larger division of which it was a part. A record of A.D. 692 mentions a bhāga (Velahināṛu) on the north bank of the river Kṛṣṇaverṇā or the Kṛṣṇā. According to Kielhorn bhāga and bhoga are synonymous terms.⁵ The Eḍevoḷal-bhāga has already been noticed above.