Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

SR No.: 001609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 566
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, Literature, & Culture
File Size: 16 MB

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YAŠASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
nh: Book I. The traditional Cola located in the Indrakaccha country. The country is represented by the modern name Raurukapura is omitted in the printdistricts of Trichinopoly and Tanjore and ed text, and supplied here from the manu. part of Pudukkottah State. Comm. on scripts. Raurukapura seems to be the 3,247 calls the Cola country Mañjişthädeśa, Roruka of the Buddhist texts, the capital
The land of madder', also Samangadesa of Sovira, an important centre of the (under 1. 86), samanga being same as coasting trade, apparently on the Gulf of mañ iştha. Under 1. 208 ( Gofruota Cutch. Rhys Davids: Buddhist India, fag) comm. identifies the Cola country p. 38. Cf. Mahāvastu, Vol. 3, p. 208: with Gangapura, which seems to be an सौवीराणां च रोरुकं. abbreviated Sanskritized form of Gangai
Janapada, Book VI, section 5. The capital koņda-colapuram, the Cola capital during
of Janapada was Bhūmitilakapura. The the eleventh and twelfth centuries, 'at the
place is not identified, but for early coins meeting point of the modern districts of
of Janapada see Rapson: Indian Coins, Trichinopoly, S, Arcot and Tanjore.'
p. 12. Janapada was perhaps near the Cunkāra, Book IV, p. 138. A city associated Kuru country, as in the story in question in a legend with the sage Bphaspati.
(See Chap. XVI) two friends, banished Dahāla, Book VII, section 29. Same as Dāhala
from Bhūmitilakapura, come to Hastina. or Dāhāla identified with the kingdom
gapura in Kurujāngala. of Cedi (q. v.). Somadeva describes it Kakandi, see under Kämpilya. as full of sugarcane groves, and says that
Kālidāsa, name of a forest, near Ahiochatra, the city of Svastimati is in Dahālä (374
on the Jalavihini river (जलवाहिनीनामनदीतटकामकोदण्डकारणकान्तारैरिवेक्षुवणावतारैर्विराजितमण्डलायां
Afacetaz HER FIRTHarga Book VI, डहालायामस्ति स्वस्तिमती नाम पुरी).
section 15). Das'ārna, Book IV, p. 153. Also q uiaforaft-1
Kalinga, Book V. Sudatta is described as Huiger: Book III, p. 568. The capital of!
the lord of the Mahendra mountain, the Dasarna was Vidiśā, the remains of which are between the rock of Bhilsa and the
home of elephants, in Kalinga (
द्विरदमदामोदमन्दकन्दरोदरपरिसरत्पवनपानपरमधुकरालीhill of Udayagiri. In the midst of this
नीलमणिमेखलाङ्कितनितम्बवसुंधरस्य महेन्द्रमहीधरस्याधिburied city is the hamlet of Besnagar, in
fa:). The Kaliiga forest, famous for its Gwalior State. Comm, says a TIO FTTH ATT
elephants, is thus defined in a verse 97WT Tataariffar ada. Dasarņa is
quoted in the comm. on Book II: 37 - identified with East Malwa and the ad
'उत्कलानां च देशस्य दक्षिणस्यार्णवस्य च । सह्यस्य चैव joining region with its capital at Vidiśā and the rivers Daśārņā (modern Dhagan)
विन्ध्यस्य मध्ये कालिङ्गजं वनम् ॥' The elephants of and Vetravati (modern Betwa) running
Kalinga are referred to also in Yasastilaka through it. IHQ, Vol. XXI, p. 61,
3. 248. Ekacakrapura, Book VII, section 22.
Kamboja -1. 211 (ayraftf9 ); Friti Ekānasi, Book V (explained in comm. as
faqefirretys: Book I. Comm. on Ujjayini), p. 226. Mentioned also in
Book II (देवमिव कुलेन काम्बोनम्) identifies
Kamboja with Bählikadeśa (modern Balkh Book VII, section 25, and located in
in Northern Afghanistan). Under 1.211 Avanti.
comm. identifies Kamboja with Kashmir Girikūta, Book VII, section 29.
and the neighbouring countries, and calls Hastināgapura, see under Kurujāngala.
the Kamboja women large-headed : giftHemapura, Book VI, section 15.
रादिदेशस्त्रीणां बृहन्मुण्डानाम्. It explains also Indrakaccha, Book VI, section 9. The city a toitaiwas er after aftalu. Kamboja
of Raurukapura, also called Māyāpuri, is was near Gandhāra 'in the extreme north