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Shilahara Kingdom | |||||||||
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| 8th century–1212 | |||||||||
.jpg) An anonymous silver drachma (perhaps from the North Konkan Silaharas) dating from the 11th–12th centuries. This kind of currency was found in the district of Nimar of Madhya Pradesh and in the Huzur Jawhirkhana of Indore. Dimension: 14 mm Weight: 4.4 g.
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| Capital | Thane | ||||||||
| Common languages | Kannada,[3][4]Sanskrit, Marathi[5][6] | ||||||||
| Religion | Jainism Hinduism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 8th century | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1212 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||
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Obv: Head of a king. Rev: A horseman fighting two foot-soldiers with a third behind him and a fourth dead at his horse's feet.
The Shilahara (IAST: Śilāhāra; also Shelara, Selara, Shilara, Silara) was a royal dynasty that established itself in northern and southern Konkan in 8th century CE, present-day Mumbai and Southern Maharashtra (Kolhapur) during the Rashtrakuta period.[7]
Shilahara Kingdom were split into three branches:
- First branch ruled North Konkan
- Second branch ruled South Konkan (between 765 and 1029 CE)
- Third branch ruled in modern districts of Kolhapur, Satara and Belagavi (between 940 and 1215 CE) after which they were overwhelmed by the Yadavas.[8]
- ^ Chandra, Satish (2004). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206–1526) – Part One. Har-Anand Publications. pp. 19–20. ISBN 978-81-241-1064-5.
- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 32, 146. ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Kannada Inscriptions From Maharashtra (PDF).
- ^ The Shilaharas were Kannadigas as established in their inscriptions (Govind Pai, 1993, p. 99)
- ^ Richard Salomon (1999). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195099842.
- ^ V. V. Mirashi, ed. (1977). "Texts and Translations". Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.6 (inscriptions Of The Silaharas). Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi.
- ^ K. M. Shrimali (1996). "How monetized was the Śilāhāra economy?". In Ram Sharan Sharma; Dwijendra Narayan Jha (eds.). Society and ideology in India: essays in honour of professor R.S. Sharma. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 95. ISBN 9788121506397.
Linguistically, 32 out of a total of 45 records of the two branches of Konkan area are in Sanskrit and the rest are sprinkled mostly with Marathi
- ^ "Nasik History - Ancient Period". State Government of Maharashtra. Archived from the original on 29 April 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2006.