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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
..Dr. Bühler suggested the following identifications of the localities mentioned in this
Grant[1]. “The filed which was granted to Āmadēvaiya was situated in the village of Nōura,
now Nōvāhar, belonging to the vishaya or tābukā of Shaṭshashṭi, the modern Salsette, and
included in Śrīsthānaka or Ṭhāṇā. The village of Gōṁvaṇi is now called Gōwhan, and
lies north of Bhāṇḍup. Gōrapavalī is not to be traced on the Trigonometrical Survey map,
but it may be the old name of Bhāṇḍup, which occupies nearly the place assigned to Gōrapavalī[2]. It is worthy of note that the “King’s high road” (rājapatha), which according to the
grant, passed to the west of the piece of land granted, followed nearly the same line as the
present road from the Bombay to Ṭhāṇā.â
TEXT[3]
First Plate
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Second Plate : First Side

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Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 277.
Both Nōvāhar and Gōwhan do not exist now. Fleet thought that Gōrapavalī was perhaps a hamlet
(pallī) of Nōura.
From the facsimiles between pages 262 and 263 in Ep. Ind., Vol. XII.
[4] Expressed by a symbol.
[5] Metre of verses 1 and 2: Anushṭubh.
[6] Metre of verses 3 and 4 : Vasantatilakā.
[7] Metre : Svāgatā.
[8] Metre : Vasantatilakā.
[9] Metre : Śārdūlavikrīḍita.
[10] Metre of verses 8 and 9 : Anushṭubh.
[11] This verse is incomplete and is incorrectly written. In place of verses 10 and 11, read तस्मादभूद्वज्जडदेवनामा
श्रीकेशिदेवो नृपतिस्ततोभूत् । तद्भ्रातृजो बज्जडदेवसूनु: नृपतिर्बभूव ॥ on the evidence of v. 5 in the
Dive Āgar plates of Chhittarāja (No. 10). Metre Upajāti (irregular).
[12] Metre : Indravajra.
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