Kavyanushasana Part 2

SR No.: 001067
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Rasiklal C Parikh, Ramchandra B Athvale
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1938
Total Pages: 635
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 10 MB

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are given to the Bhikkhuņīs of Yakshasura. Another grant of the year 290, it may be noted, was given to a temple of Mahādeva - a rare instance, looking to the fact that almost all the kings of Valabhi were Paramamāhesvaras. This one may indicate that there might have been many more such grants which are either lost or are not yet discovered. If we do not have some such supposition it would be very difficult to explain this paucity of grants from these great devotees of Siva. A third grant of the year 290 gives to the Brāhmaṇas Mitraşarman and Gamesvara sons of Rudraşarman the village of Daşapura to which place they originally belonged ( Mandosara in Mālwa ), but were then living in Valabhi. This shows that his kingdom included part of Mālwa at least.
As Molap'o of Yuan Chang comprises main land Gujarat we may quote from his travels, as it gives
I “Although it is impossible to reconcile all the data given in the pilgrim's text, and several details are open to controversy, it is clear that the kingdom or country of Mola - Po essentially comprised the basin of the Mabī river, with the region to the east of Sābaramati and a portion of the hilly tract of Southern Rajputără perhaps extended as far east as Rutlam. Mo-la-P'o was bounded on the North by the Gurjar kingdom of Bhilmal, on the north - west by the subordinate principality or province of Anandapura (Varnagar), lying to the west of Sabarmati, and on the east by the kingdom (Avanti) or eastern Malwa of which Ujjain was capital. Besides Anandapura two other countries, Ki – t'A or Ki - ch'A and Su-la-ch'A or Sulatha were dependencies of Mo -la - Po. The latter dependency certainly is to be identified with Soratha (Surastra), or Southern Kathiawar. The identity of the former is disputed some good authorities holding the Chinese name to mean the Kaira (Kheda, Khetak) District, while others believe it to mean Kuchchh" (Cutch)." (E. H. I. pp. 323-324.)