Vaḷīpaṭṭana : The Shilāhāra Capital

What’s more interesting is that the 1008 CE Khārepāṭaṇa plates seem to suggest that Baḷipaṭṭana was indeed in Goa. These plates record the grant of some villages by king Raṭṭarāja to the temple dedicated to Avvēśvara. “I have donated in honour of my parents and for my own spiritual welfare - on the full-moon tithi of Jyēsṭha in the years nine hundred increased by thirty which have elapsed by the era of the Saka king, the cyclic year being Kīlaka, for the worship with fivefold of offerings of the holy Avvēśvara, … (1) the village of Kuśmānḍī, the boundaries of which are on the east, the prapā of Manigrāma on the south, by the road to the village of Vāparavaṭa, on the west, by the water-course of the village Sachāndalakapittha, and on the north by a kshāra-nadī. (2) the village of Asanavīra; which has on the east Dhārāvāhala, on the south, the river of the village Kāraparṇī, on the west, the sea, and on the north, the river of the village Gāvahaṇa.” [Mirashi, 1977 : 192]