Collects the records of the three Silahara houses: North Konkan (Thana), South Konkan, and Kolhapur. For 1200 it gives the grants of the Thana Silaharas (Aparaditya II, reigning to about 1197, and his successors) with their ports and ministers, and of Bhoja II of Kolhapur (about 1175 to 1212), whose kingdom the Yadava Singhana swallowed soon after. The records name the western ports (Thana, Chaul, Sopara) and the Arab and Persian merchants who used them. Mirashi's introduction sets out the chronology.
About this source
- Title
- Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 6: Inscriptions of the Silaharas
- Author
- Various (Silahara chanceries), edited by V. V. Mirashi
- Author's dates
- Mirashi 1893 to 1985
- Written
- inscriptions of the 9th to 13th centuries; edited 1977
- Language
- Sanskrit, with English translations
- Covers
- about 800 to 1260
- Kind
- Inscriptions
The Goa Kadambas (Jayakesi III, about 1187 to 1216) have no separate corpus; their records are in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and in G. M. Moraes, The Kadamba Kula (1931).
Where to read it
Editions
- V. V. Mirashi (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum vol. 6: Inscriptions of the Silaharas (New Delhi, 1977); Archaeological Survey of India publication, DLI scan (in copyright; not linked) (not freely online)