Tilakamanjari

SR No.: 022659
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanpal, Sudarshankumar Sharma
Publisher: Parimal Publications
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 504
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMANJARĪ
Narmada on western side and by the Mekala range and Suvarnarekha river on the eastern side,'
According to Dr. Law, Āryävartta to which Patanjali refers in his Mahābhasya is described in the Dharmasûtras and Dharmasastras to have extended from the region where the river Sarasvati disappears in the west, to the Black forest in the cast and from the Himalayas in the north to the Paripătra in the south. Almost all the Brahmanical sources give a description of Madhyadeśa or Aryavartta, the most important division of India. The middle country was the cradle on which the Brahmanical aryans or the Buddhist staged the entire drama of their career. The five divisions, as indicated in the Bhuvanakosa section of the Puranas, are identical with those given in the Kavyamīmārsā, पूर्वापरयोः समुद्रयोर्हिमवद्विन्ध्ययोश्चान्तरमार्यावर्तः, 3 They are as follows:
(a) Madhyadeśa (Middle country);
(b) Udicya or Uttarapatha (Northern country);
(c) Pracya (Eastern India);
(d) Daksinapatha (Deccan); and
(e) Aparanta (Western India)."
Dhanapala has mentioned -
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Daksinrärdha and Madhyamakhandas of Bharatakşetra, Uttaräpatha," Dakṣinapatha or Dākṣiņātya.' Präcya can be understood by his reference to Meghavahana's sway over kamarūpa, Anga, Kalinga." The western part of India stands alluded to in his mention of Saurastramandala." काश्मीरादिमण्डलप्रतिवद्धै: प्रधाननगर भस्मै रूप तं कुमारभुक्तावाखिलमुत्तरापथम् ।
1. KSN p. 115.
2. II.4.10.
पुनरार्यावर्तः
537. p. Mahabhasya part I MLBD, 1967प्रमादर्शात्प्रत्यक्कालकवनाद्दक्षिणेन हिमवन्तमुतरेण पारियात्रम्
3. XVII, p. 93. L.17 Edited by R.A. Shastri and revised by K.S. Rama Swami Shastri Siromani, O.I.B. 1934.
4. HGAI p. 13.
5. Cp. 369 above.
6. TM Vol. p. 85, Vol. II pp. 229, 251, Sm. ed. p. 343. Vol. II p. 224, Sm. ed. p. 379, Vol. II p. 190. Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar identified Dakṣiṇāpatha with Maharashtra. Early History of the Deccan down to the Mohamedan conquest p. 10.
7 TM Vol. III p. 15.
8. Ibid. Vol. III pp. 33-34, 186.
9. Ibid. Vol. III p. 186.
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