Mauryas of Puri

[3] As early as 1322 CE, European visitors mention the name Porus or Pori, referring to a king or a city, and identitying it with the Elephanta Island or the nearby Thane.

[11] Some scholars dispute the identification of Puri with Elephanta, arguing that the island is too small and of uneven terrain to support a capital city, and that the archaeological remains found there are mainly religious in nature.

[13] The Bandora (Bandiwade) copper-plate inscription of Anirjita-varman records the grant of tax-exempt land in Dvadasa-desha (modern Bardez) to Hastyarya, a learned Samavedi Brahmin of Hariti gotra.

The donee was expected to convert this wetland into a cultivated field by constructing a bund to prevent the salty sea water from entering the land.

[6] The king also granted the donee some land previously belonging to an unnamed branch of Rashtrakutas, with a garden, an irrigation tank, and a site for building a house.

[6] Chalukya records describe the Maurya capital Puri as the "Goddess of the fortune of western ocean", suggesting that they were a local maritime power.

The inscriptions attest to the existence of the khajjana system (later known as khazan), which involved construction of embankments to prevent the sea water from entering the coastal paddy fields.

The Aihole inscription of the Chalukya king Pulakeshin II describes his father Kirttivarman I (r. c. 566–592) as "the night of doom" for the Mauryas and other dynasties.

After consolidating his power in southern Deccan, Pulakeshin II successfully besieged the Mauryan capital Puri, ending their rule.

[2] His Aihole inscription states:[20] In the Konkanas by the impetuous waves of the forces directed by him the rising wavelets of pools in the form of the Mauryas were violently swept away.

The Morès rulers of Jävli boasted of lineal descent from the royal Maurya of Konkan and the still more ancient imperial Mauryan empire.