Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c12.45

c12.45

The country round the city of Mānapura, founded by Mānaṅka, appears to have been known in the early medieval period as Māna-deśa which included modern Velāpur about eleven kos to the west of Pandharpur (possibly the same as Pāṇḍuraṅgapallī mentioned in the record of Mānaṅka’s grandson Avidheya) in the Sholapur District of the South Marāṭhā country. Cf. Mānadeśa-sambaddha-Velāpura, Mānadeśa-sambaddha-sarvādhikārī Brahmadeva-rāṇā, etc., in the three Velāpur inscriptions (1300 and 1305 A.D.) of the Yādava king Rāmacandra of Devagiri in G. H. Khare’s *Sources of the Medieval History of the Dekkan*, Vol. I, pp. 78-80; Vol. II, p. 9. In that case, the dominions of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Mānapura comprised parts of the Ratanagiri, Satara and Sholapur Districts of Bombay.