The Kāṭhīyāvāḍī Chaadd’ddi

The story that emerges is indeed interesting; it questions what we have believed so far. And what we have believed so far is that the brāhman fleeing from the drying Sarasvatī settled in Kuśasthaḷī and the surrounding villages. Our story says it is the kshatriya, who fled from the western coast of the Kāṭhīyāvāḍa peninsula consequent to its submergence by the sea, travelled by sea to Goa coast and settled there; later they lost the prized river bank villages to the incoming brāhman and migrated to the neighbouring coastal villages.