Shilahara: Difference between revisions

| common_languages = [[Kannada]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Kannada Inscriptions From Maharashtra |url=https://210.212.169.38/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/1931/Kannada%20Inscription%20from%20maharashtra.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref><ref name="Pai">The Shilaharas were Kannadigas as established in their inscriptions (Govind Pai, 1993, p. 99)</ref>[[Sanskrit]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]]<ref>{{cite book |author= Richard Salomon |title=Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYrG07qQDxkC&pg=PA100 |year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 0195099842 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor=V. V. Mirashi|chapter=Texts and Translations|title=Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol.6 (inscriptions Of The Silaharas)|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.108176/mode/2up?q=Marathi|year=1977|publisher=Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi}}</ref>

The '''Shilahara/Shelara Kingdom''' ([[IAST]]: Śilāhāra; also Shelara, Selara, Shilara, Silara) was a [[Maratha (caste)|Mahratta]]royal dynasty that established itself in northern and southern [[Konkan]] in 8th century CE, present-day [[Mumbai]] and [[Maharashtra|Southern Maharashtra]] ([[Kolhapur]]) during the [[Rashtrakuta]] period.<ref>{{cite book |author=K. M. Shrimali |chapter=How monetized was the Śilāhāra economy? |editor1=Ram Sharan Sharma |editor2=Dwijendra Narayan Jha |title=Society and ideology in India: essays in honour of professor R.S. Sharma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAZuAAAAMAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal |page=95 |isbn=9788121506397 |quote=Linguistically, 32 out of a total of 45 records of the two branches of Konkan area are in Sanskrit and the rest are sprinkled mostly with Marathi}}</ref>