Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela and Bhabru Edict of Asoka

SR No.: 006726
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shashi Kant
Publisher: D K Print World
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 196
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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Appendix III
123 Trişastisalākāpuruşacarita, X.12.45-46, that Kumārapāla will be the king 1669 years after the nirvāṇa, i.e., in AD 1142, the otherwise well-known date of Kumārapāla's accession.
Asikanagaram and Karhabeỉnā in L 4 Dr. M.K. Dhavalikar prefers Musikanagaraṁ to Asikanagaraṁ and identifies it with Maski in Raichur district (A.B.O.R.I, LIII, p. 289). Dr. V.V. Mirashi, however, points out that Asika is mentioned with Asmaka in the list of territories in the Nasik Cave Inscription of Year 19 of the Sātavāhana Vāśişthiputra Pulumāvi and that the Asika region seems to be identical with Khandesh which is in accord with the geographical direction given by Khāravela. (Sātavāhanon aur Pascimi Kșatrapon kā Itihāsa, p. 78).
N.S. Ramaswami prefers to identify Kaṁhabeṁnā with the R. Krishna particularly in the light of the Guntupille Inscription (J.O.R., XXXVIII, p. 36). But the difficulty in this identification is that the Krishna flows to the south of the Kalinga and not to its west.
Coyatha in L 16 The reading has been consistently coyatha but it has been sought to be equated with cosatha to mean ‘sixty-four'. This equation is not sustainable because neither in this inscription nor otherwise in Prakrit ya is interchangeable with sa. “Four Eight appears to be a poetic way of saying 'twelve' (dvādaśa) instead of using the prosaic bärasa. Bārasa is used for '12' in L 11.
Sātakamniñ and Bahasatimita Dr. V.V. Mirashi also holds that Sātakaṁnim, the powerful adversary of Khāravela, was Śātakarņi, the third king of the Sātavāhana dynasty who ruled for 10 years after 41 years of the founding of the dynasty by Simuka (op. cit., pp. 80-81).
He also thinks that when Khāravela invaded Magadha, no Śunga king ruled there but Byhaspatimitra of the Mitra dynasty