Sources for study of history of Goa
What Are The Sources Of The Study?
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| History of goa |
Archaeological sources: Monuments, Inscriptions, Chronicles,
Idols, Sculptures, Pottery, Jewellery, Ornaments, temple of Tambdisurla- built
by queen Kamaladevi of Kdamba dynasty.
Literary Sources: letters/documents by Portuguese govt.,
inscriptions, Vedas, Shayadri-Khand
ALSO:
Study of coins: Numismatics
Study of inscriptions: Epigraphy
Study of words: Etimology
Study of different handwritings: Calligraphy
Study of ancient Monuments- Archaeology.
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| Kushawati river |
Significant importance of Kushawati River Culture?
The discovery of rare stone age rock carving in Usgalimal,
Sanguem taluka has bought over on the map of rock cart in India. Rock art came
into existence 50,000years ago, but was discovered much later. Most of the rock
art areas of southern India are on granite, central India on sandstone and Goa
on laterite.
The earliest rock paintings in India date back to period
8,000years before present. The peculiarity of the rock cut carvings at
Usgalimal is that, they are all on very hard platform. The site is 6km away
from Rivana, here unique image of mother goddess was found by Directorate of archives of Goa in 1988. The site at
usgalimal gets submerged under water for almost 8months during monsoon, every
year. This site is full of carvings
depicting symbols of fertility cult, religious cosmology, engraving of
aniimals like, Zebu, Deer, Gaur, Scenes of chasing animals, mating
animals,Bison, X-Ray type animals etc.
Most probably, the are carved by specially
prepared sharp pointed hard stone tools. There are total hundred symbolic
figures. The Usgalimal petroglyphs are those of Mesolithic period, 30,000BC.
Eddicts and Copper plates
The ancient history of Goa can be traced from the Mauryan
times before Christian era. The Girnar rock cut edict of the great Mauryan
emperor Ashoka refers to the people as Pettinikas, Rasgtrikas and Bhojas, who already settled down in
semi-independent kingdoms comprising the Deccan and the Konkan. It is also known from 13th
rock edict that the Bhojas and Pettinikas were instructions of mortality. We
have got 6 copper plate inscriptions of the Bhojas of south-Konkan, extending
over the period from 4th to 7th cent.AD. No records of
the Bhojas belonging to early Mauryan period are so far discovered.
The earliest known record of the Bhoja ruler of Goa was
found at Shiroda, on palaeographical grounds supposed to be belonging to 3rd
or 4th cent.AD. It was issued from Chandrapur i.e. modern Chandor on
the banks of river Paroda. Thus, king Devraj of Shiroda plate is the first
known ruler of the Bhoj dynasty of Chandrapur. We have two grants of Bhoj king
Prithvimallavarman, which was found at Bandoda. The other 3 were found at Kumta
in north-Canara, Khapoli in Khanapur issued by king Asankitraj, Asankitwarman
and king Kapalivarman respectively.
There are many such other sources for the study of history
of Goa, but since, not all of them are reliable many are not taken into
consideration at all. The major role in studying thr history of Goa and
bringing it to light has been done by Directorate of Archies of Goa. This
brings us the insight into the ancient history of Goa as well.
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Your article is nice, however the information about the Shiroda Copper plate needs to be corrected.
ReplyDeleteIt was found at Borim, in the house of Sawkars. The details can be found in book by Anant Shenvi Dhume titled "The Cultural History Of Goa" available on Amazon