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 Jayakeshi I; Royal Charter (1052 AD) Goa

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Taken from: Kadamba Kula: A History of Ancient and Medieval Karnataka By George Moraes.

 

 

 

The inscription records that the city owed a substantial part of its prosperity to the wise administration of Sadano. The power of this minister was firmly established and he was sincerely esteemed by all. Under the administration of this minister the city enjoyed great happiness and new increase of trade; and all its citizens became richer. We also learn that Sadano then established a charitable institution at Goa in AD 1053.

 

 

 

 

Left the Raya Viragal of Jayakeshi I


Taken from : O Oriente portugues, Issues 19-21 1938 by Prof. Pandurang Pissurlencar 

 

This inscription reads in short: The king Trilochana Cadamba had a son named Chaturbhuz that begat Guhalladsva.
The latter begot a son named Callaha Nripali (ie. Shashihadeva II). The people had the great fortune of being born of
the same king Guhalladeva (?) A son by name Jaiquexi.

 

In the port and city of Vemuly (1) lived Madhumad (is Mohamed), Taji of origin (i.e. Arabic), who was Chief among the
owners of boats. He made great allegiance to the king Guhalladeva when the same monarch had been on a
pilgrimage to the temple of Sri Somexvar (2) and who had been forced to interrupt his trip, when the mast in the boat
broke. The Madhumad begat, among others, a son named Sri Sameil which, in turn, begat a son named - Saddhan
whom the king made his prime minister. On Friday, 3. Vaixaka (3) day, year Jaya, Shake year 975 (ie, 1053), the said
Saddhan founded a house called Mijiguiti (Mosque) (others translate a charitable institution) in the city of Gopakapura (4)
and for its maintenance, the king Jaiquexi accepted the request of the said minister, and launched a contribution (a tax)
upon the trade boats that frequented the port of Goa, with the consent of the merchants of the lands of Simhala (Ceylon),
Zangavar (Zanzibar), Kalah (5), Pandya (in southern India), Kerala (Malabar) Chouda (in southern India), Gauda
(Bengal) in Bengal Khyata (Quiti in Arabia), Gurjara (northern Gujarat), Lat (South Gujarat), Puxta (in the Madras
Presidency), Sri Sthanak, Chandrapura (a region near Goa) who were at that time working in the same city of Old Goa.

 

The contribution was established as follows:

- Any merchant vessel that comes from any port or city not listed below will pay for each trip two coins called gadyanacas.

- The boats that come from the land called Malaya-desha pay for each trip a coin gadyanaka, but the boat being a
parangue (type of ship) pays for each five drachmas (8).
- The boats from Duluka-desha (6) and Gobarna (7) pay each five drachmas (8) per trip, but being a parangue they pay only a drachma.
The boats that are talked of are of the lands that lie to the south of Old Goa. Declaration of the Rights of the vessels that
will pay from the North (of Old Goa)

- From the land Sourashtra (9), Gurjara (10), Lota (11), Sthanak (12), Konkan (13), and Veimulya (14) each parangue pays per trip a gadyanaka.

- In Chippalona (15), Sangaineshvar (16), Valapattan (17), pays each parangue for a round trip five drachmas (8) ……..

(1) Vemuly: Veimulya ; Seimulya or Chaul

(2) Sri Somexvar: The Somnath temple. See my webpage of Al-Biruni (1050) (Teareikh al-India) (book on India)

(3) Vaixaka day: Vaisakhi marks the first day of the month of Vaisakha and is usually celebrated annually on 13 or 14 April as the solar new year. It is additionally a spring harvest festival in the Punjab.

(4) Gopakapura now Goa-Velha a southern suburb of the City of Goa.

(5) Kalah: very important harbour in Malaysia in those days.

(6) Duluka-desha: Tulu country

(7) Gobarna; Gokarna: region near Kumta

(8) Drachmas: in India called Dramma; based on the Greek Drachma of Alexander the Great lasted as a silver coin for 1500 years.

(9) Sourashtra: Saurashtra is the language of the Saurashtrians of Southern India.

(10) Gurjara: Gurjaradesa (Gurjara country) is eastern Rajasthan and northern Gujarat.

(11) Lota: Coastal Gujarat

(12) Sthanak: Thana

(13) Konkan: also modern Konkan

(14) Veimulya ; Seimulya or Chaul

(15) Chippalona: Chiplun

(16) Sangaineshvar: near Ratnagiri

(17) Valapattan: Baliapattana or Kharetan