Note 1 — INDEX
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The first notice of the exercise of sovereignty by the Musalmán rulers of Gujarát over lands further south than the neighbourhood of Surat is in a.d. 1428, when king Áhmed I. (a.d. 1412–1443) contested with the Dakhan sovereign the possession of Máhim (north latitude 19° 40′; east longitude 72° 47′). As no record remains of a Musalmán conquest of the coast as far south as Danda Rájapuri or Janjira, about fifty miles south of Bombay, it seems probable that the North Konkan fell to the Musalmáns in a.d. 1297 as part of the recognised territories of the lords of Aṇahilapura (Pátan). Rás Málá, I. 350. One earlier reference may be noted. In a.d. 1422 among the leading men slain in the battle of Sárangpur, about fifty miles north-east of Ujjain in Central India, was Sávant chief of Danda Rájapuri that is Janjíra. Mirăt-i-Sikandari (Persian Text), 40, and Farishtah (Persian Text), II. 468. ↑