Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c12.16

c12.16

A Rāṣṭrakūṭa ruler named Mānāṅka (who seems to have originally been a rāṣṭrakūṭa or provincial governor) is known from the Undikavatika grant⁵ of his great-grandson Abhimanyu who resided at Mānapura. He has been identified with king Mānāṅka, grandfather of Avidheya who issued the Pandurangapalli grant discovered in the neighbourhood of Kolhapur. There is reason to believe that the territories over which these rulers held away lay in the Kolhapur region and the adjoining area of the South Marāṭhā country, and Prof. Mirashi may be right in identifying their capital with Man in the Satara District. Rāṣṭrakūṭa Bibhurāja of the Hingniberdi plates, Dejja-mahārāja of the Gokak plates, Govindarāja, son of Śivarāja, who is known from the Naravana grant of 743 A. D. of the time of Vikramāditya II and seems to have been the subordinate ruler of a territory in the Satara-Ratnagiri region, may have been scions of this family.⁴ The land ruled by this family seems to have been known as ‘Māna’s territory.’⁵