Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: hammedan pilgrims toMecca. It is still a flourishing littleseaport. In the Temple HarsadJl/ata is a celebrated inscription(1264), recording that a mosque wasendowed in that year, and bearingdates in four different eras. It wasfrom this inscription that it was dis-covered that the Valabhi era com-menced in 319 A.D., and the ShriSingh era from 1113 A. D. The riverDevka flows to the N. of Verawal,and joins the sea at a place calledDani Baru. The yaleshvar Temple, account for the undoubted fact thatfrom the earliest times they carriedon a trade with the Red Sea, PersianGulf, and African coast. The placeis renowned in Hindu mythology.It was here the Jadavs slew eachother, and here Krishna, the latelegends of whom are connected withKathiawar as the earlier ones are withWuttra (p. 166), was shot by theBhil. In the Gir Forest, inlandfrom Patau, is the only place inIndia where there are one or twoseparate communities of Africannegroes. Mahmud of Ghazni con-quered the town in 1025 A, D., and it

Text Appearing After Image: Scale of Miles Sttutfor^ls Geoy £stai Verawal and Patan. about 2 m. N.W. from the town, atthe mouth on the right bank, is ofgreat antiquity. Half way to it onthe sand dunes is the Rest-House ofthe Junagarh State. On the S.W.face of Verawal there is a modernsea-wall and an unfinished stone pierwith a lighthouse at the end of it.A large Custom House has been builton the sea face, and near it is a dockestablished on reclaimed land. On the sea-shore, nearly 3 m. tothe S.E., is Patan Somnatli, alsoknown as Prabhas P;itan, or DevaPatan, the Semenat of Marco Polo.The anchorages at Verawal andPatan are so bad that it is hard to appears that he left behind a Moham-medan Governor. Subsequently theHindus recovered their power, but itwas again cast down by Alauddincirca 1300 A.D., and the coast belt orNagher kingdom conquered. Fromthis date Mohammedan supremacyprevailed throughout the belt, andfrom the reign of MuhammadTughlak governors were regularlyappointed. Through the gallantryand statesman

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