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In the [[Sanskrit epics]], the '''Gopa Rashtra''' (Gopa kingdom) of central and western India is believed to have been ruled by [[Krishna]]. Inscriptions indicate the presence of a region by this name in the [[Chalukya]] empire (present day [[Maharashtra]] and [[Goa]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=A cultural history of Maharashtra and Goa: from place name inscriptions |first=Malati |last=Mahajan |publisher=Sundeep Prakashan |year=1989 |page=79}}</ref> In the Junagarh inscriptions of [[Skandagupta]] and [[Chalukya]]n records, Gopa rasthra is mentioned as the colony inhabited by the [[Abhir]] people.<ref name="gr1992">{{cite book|last1=Shastri|first1=Ajay Mitra|title=The Age of the Vākāṭakas|date=1992|publisher=Harman Publishing House|isbn=9788185151519|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZvpAAAAMAAJ&q=gopa+rashtra&dq=gopa+rashtra|access-date=31 March 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=India Today International|publisher=Living Media India Limited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRAwAQAAIAAJ&q=gopa+rashtra&dq=gopa+rashtra|access-date=31 March 2016|language=en}}</ref> [[Kautilya]] states that the region was tribal corporation following the profession of agriculture and arms both.<ref name="gr1992"/> According to [[Mahabharata]]'s list of kingdoms given in Bhishma Parva, chapter-9, Pandu Rashtra, Gopa Rashtra, Malla Rashtra and Ashmaka together formed the modern Maharashtra.<ref name="mah@rashtra">{{cite book|last1=Vaidya|first1=Chintāmana Vināyaka|title=History of Mediæval Hindu India: (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) ...|date=1921|publisher=Oriental Book Supplying Agency|page=259|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7UkzAQAAMAAJ&q=gopa+rashtra&dq=gopa+rashtra|access-date=31 March 2016|language=en}}</ref> The term [[Goa]] is derived from Goparashtra i.e. the area of [[Yadava]]s.<ref name="ASI1995">{{cite book|last1=Anthropological Survey of India|title=The Scheduled Castes|date=1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9788171547609|page=xxiv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORBOAQAAMAAJ&q=gopa+rashtra&dq=gopa+rashtra|access-date=31 March 2016|language=en}}</ref>

==History==
The name of Gopa rashtra forms part among the various kingdoms of [[Ancient India]] as narrated in the epic Mahabharata.<ref name="mbh5">{{cite book|last1=Debroy|first1=Bibek|title=The Mahabharata|date=2015|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9788184756814|pages=Chapter 870(10)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vIT1SLNXdYC&pg=PT89&dq=GopaRashtra#q=GopaRashtra|access-date=18 June 2016|language=en}}</ref>

The state of [[Goa]] is described as ancient Goparashtra and it takes its present name from earlier used terms like- Gomant, Gomantaka, Govarashtra or Goparashtra. All these names are prefixed with "Go" means "cow". Mahabharata refers it to as the country of cowherds.<ref name="goa@1">{{cite book|last1=Souza|first1=edited by Teotonio R. de|title=Goa through the ages.|date=1990|publisher=Concept Pub. Co.|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788170222590|page=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwYDPnEjTb4C&pg=PA4&dq=GopaRashtra#q=GopaRashtra|access-date=18 June 2016|language=en}}</ref>

Inscriptions of [[Chalukya]] age mention about grant of Balegrama village in the Goparashtra to worship Kapaleshvara.<ref name="vhaluya">{{cite book|last1=Chapekar|first1=Laxman Narayan|title=Thakurs of the Sahyadri|date=1966|publisher=University of Bombay; distributors: P.C. Manaktala|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRsuAAAAMAAJ&q=GopaRashtra&dq=GopaRashtra|access-date=18 June 2016|language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Kingdoms of Ancient India]]

== References ==
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*[[Kisari Mohan Ganguli]], ''The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose'', 1883-1896.

==External links==

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