Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.121

c9.121

Karahakaṭa (Karahāṭanagara or Karahāṭa).—It is mentioned in the Barhut Inscriptions (ed. Barua and Sinha, pp. 11, 12, 17, 33). It is a town identified by Hultzsch with modern Karhad in the Satara district of the Bombay Presidency, where the copperplates of Kṛṣṇa III were discovered (E.I., IV, 278ff.). According to the E.I. (XXVI, p. 323), it is the modern Karāḍ.