PORTS SOUTH OF RATNAGIRí.

NoveMBER, 1873.]

followed, to have taken place in Samvat 1522, the Jhādejā chronicles assigning Samvat 901 as the date of Lākhā's death.

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be accepted without question. It is only, how ever, by tracing the contemporary Wäghelă

Now if a corre

Rånäs, as well as the Chudāsamá Rás, that a

sponding deduction be made from this date to that proposed to be added to the date given by Ranchodji Devān, a date might be found for Lākhā that would perhaps fulfil all the condi tions required. At present if Sam. 901 be doubtless too early, so also is Sam. 1522 too late

final decision can be arrived at on this point. These rough speculations may perhaps be useful

for Lākhā's death.

Still there can, I think, be

no doubt that the dates assigned by Professor Wilson are very much more correct than any that have hitherto been allowed, except perhaps that assigned by Col. Tod; and if it be admitted that one chronicle is incorrect in dates to a cer

tain extent, there seems no valid reason to doubt

why the dates of the Jhādejā chronicles should

to other and more advanced historical students.

In conclusion I may state that the date of Wāghelä Muluji must be about Samvat 1400 to 1420. This date is founded on an inscription on a well near Morwādā of Rånå Visal Dé of Sam. 1516, mentioned above.

Now Visal Dé

was the son of Wanoji; Wanoji was the son of Surkhāji; Surkhāji was the son of Lunoji; Lunoji was the son of Unuji; and Unuji was the son of Muluji:—in all five generations, The date therefore assigned to Muluji cannot possibly be far wrong if the inscription be admitted to be correct.

MUSALMAN REMAINS IN THE SOUTH KONKAN. BY A. K. NAIRNE, Esq., Bo. C.S.

II.-Ports south There is no other port in the Southern Kon kan so prominent in history as Dā b hol, about which I have already written, and which one of the earliest European travellers spoke of as the most southerly port belonging to the Musal mâns. But though the other ports are not so distinguished, I shall be able to show much more clearly than in the case of Dābhol the routes

of Ratnāgirī. of this river is particularly fine, and about 12 miles up is the town of Sã tav ali, which, though now entirely decayed, is said to have been a place of some importance in the time of the Musalmāns, and to have had a considerable

trade. Not only has it still a large Musalmān population, with remains of mosks, a small

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fort and other buildings, but there are also to be traced roads leading in almost every directián up the very steep hills by which the town is surrounded, though no single one of them appears to have been repaired for several generations. One of these roads leads through Lå një and Prabh a n v i li to Viš a 1 g a q h. Lä një stands in a fine open plain, and is said to have been formerly a large town, and there is a tomb which is believed to be that of a princess who died here on a journey. Prabh a n vali also is known to have been formerly a large place and a chief station of the Musalmāns, but it is more decayed even than Să tav a li or Lä nje. I have only seen it from a distance, but am told that it contains no more signs of its former importance than the remains of some

18 miles south of this, however, is the small river

mosks, one of which is known to have been the

Muckhkundi, with the fort of Purang a dh at its mouth : a little way up is the white tomb of a pir visible from the sea, to which Musalmān sailors in passing make offerings. The scenery

Jamma Masjid, and the foundations of large houses. This village lies immediately under

which travellers took from them to the Musal

mān capitals of Bijã pur and Golk on d a. Little more than twenty miles south of D a -

b hol is the fine river Sã stri, with the fort of Jay a g a d h at its mouth, and the town of Sang a m e Švar thirty miles up. I am not

aware of the Musalmāns ever having bad any considerable station on this river, and, though it is quite possible they may have had, it does not seem that they can ever have required a second port so near T â b hol, while at the same time this river would be too far north for a short

route to either of the southern capitals. R at n à giri, about 20 miles south of Jay agadh, has never been a port or a place of trade, although the fort is one of the finest on the coast.

the fortress of Viš a 1 g a dh, and the ghāt is still passable for bullocks. The distance from