Indian Antiquary Vol 09

SR No.: 032501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 398
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1880.
of Paithaņa. Paņdit Bhagvânlal may be near Alibag-between Alibag and Rêvadandaright, and perhaps further materials will show named Nagánva, which is substituted by syncope that he is right, in thinking that Arrian made & for Nagagånv, or Någagrâma, the same as slip in saying "east" when he should have Nâgapur. Or, may not Nâgapur have some. said " west." All I say at present is, that the thing to do with Någoth nên? In any case identification which proceeds on the basis of the modern Nagpur of the Bhonslês is not to such a slip having been committed does not yet be thought of. I have not found the Nagapur satisfy my mind."
of our plate referred to anywhere else. SarpWhile on this subject of Tagara, we may, pâra ka, as our plate seems to have it, is perhaps, refer here to the other matters of probably only a miscopy for Surpâraka"geographical interest in the plate. The first the modern Sopârâ near Bassein. It is a interesting name to be noted is Sri Sthanaka, place of considerable antiquity, being in all likeli. which has been satisfactorily identified with hood the same as the soparåga of the Násik Thâņa. Thân & appears in former days, inscriptions." Sopârâ under various disguises from sundry other authorities, to have been a of name is familiar to the medieval travellers and place of very much greater note than it is now, geographers. Chemulio is almost certainly having been a port of considerable trade till the modern Chenwal, or, as it has been sometimes the times even of the Musalmans. Albîrûni
called, Chaul. This place has a history extending appears to speak of it under the name of Tala, over several centuries, going back, indeed, even as which he says was the capital of the Konkan, far apparently as the times of Ptolemy, who menand the Konkan, we may observe en passant, istionsit under the name Simylla" and Timonlla. distinguished by Albirûnî from the country of From the various disguises which the name had the Marath â s."
assumed in the works of foreign geographers The next name to note is Puri, which has and travellers-such as Ptolemy, Hiwen Thsang, been identified by some with Than, but this and Albirani-Col. Yule had said " that the old identification has been dissented from." Our name was something like Chaimul or Chanwul." plate certainly does not support the identifica- This happy gaess is fully corroborated by our tion, while its mention of both Pari and Sri plate, and the identification of the place with Sthânaka" may be regarded as some, though Chaal, os also suggested by Col. Yale, may be not very strong, evidence against it. I can say accepted, more especially having regard to the nothing about Hanja maņa,"or R À ya våra; current native pronunciation of the name. and about Nâgapur, I can only suggest it as We come lastly to Somes vara, which, as probable, that it may be identical with a village we have already pointed out, may safely be iden
"As regards Tugara, reference may be made to El- I. p. 321, vol. II. p. 96. On all these porta the wise, though, phinstone's Indir pp. 244-5; Meadows Taylor's Manual perbaps, heterodox remarks of Col. Yule (Cathay, vol. II. pp. 71-72 Nairne'e Konkan p. 9 (the opiniont here express p. 418) may be of practical moment. ed is questionable); J. R. 4.8. vol. IV. p. 35 noto ; vol. II. " See Trans. Int. Congr. of Orient. p. 328. It may be Pp. 384-896; J. B. B. R. A. 8. vol. X. p. 320; Ind. Ant.
interesting to note, that Sarparaka is mentioned in the vol. VI. p. 76 ; vol. VII. p. 103; vol. VIII. p. 144; Jour. Vana Parys of the Mahabharata as a "most holy place, Lit. Soc. Bomb. vol. III. p. 411; and note at p. 418,
where the Pandavas spent some time on their way from where Asiatic Researches vol. IX. p. 45 is quoted, but
the Dravida Country to Prabhass (see chap. 118, Bomb. ed.) that does not advance the question at all. The expression
It was the Subarab of the Arab Goographers. Masu'di arte TV has numerous parallela. See inter alia J. R. says it and Tanah were on the coast of Lar, and subject A. 8. vol. IV. p. 35, J. R. A. 8. vol. V. inscriptions Nos. 8 to the Balhara. Prairies d'Or, tom. I. p. 891. Albiruni and 9; J. B. B. R. A. S. vol. X. p. 54; vol. XII. p. 57, says it was 5 parasangs from Tanah; seo Ind. Ant. vol. I. 305; and Ind. Ant. vol. VI. 102.
p. 321. It is also frequently mentioned in the Bauddha See inter alia about Th&, J. B. B.R. 4. 8. vol. Cave inscriptions.-ED. XII. p. 61.; Ind. Ant. vol. VII. pp. 184—5; Yule's Cathay os At Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 820, Col. Yule expressed a desire vol. II. p. 307, also vol. I. 57 et seq. where we have some "to learn the oldest native spelling of the latter name"information abont rata which might be useful in our own viz. Chaul. Our plato now supplies that I think. Probably. day! Nairne's Konkan pp. 10, 11; J. R. . 8. vol. II. however, the name should be Chemaly and not Chepp. 384-16. The translation of t h at Asiatic Re- mali. In the plate at J. B.B.R.A. S, vol. I. p. 319, a place searches vol. I. pp. 361-64 is, of course, erroneous.
named Chemulys seems to be mentioned, which is proba** See Journ. Asiatique serie IV. tome IV. pp. 263-64.
bly the same as that we are now discussing. And in our I am obliged to my friend Mr. P. M. Mehta for explaining
plate we may read the name as Chemult or Chemulya. to me the French original. See too Nairne, p. 3.
36 See Yule's Cathay vol. I. p. cxcii. ; Nairne p. 12; J. B. ** Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 277, and vol. VII. p. 184; Nairne,
B. R. A. 8. vol. XII. p. 56 et sed.; Ind. Ant. vol. VII. p. p. 21; J. B. B. R. A. 8. vol. X. pp. 320-21, and vol. XII.
183. 81; J. R. 4. 8. vol. II. pp. 381395.
" Yule's Cathay loc. cit. See Asiat. Res. vol. 1. p. 861; Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 278. " See also about Chsul, &c. Ind. Ant. vol. VII. p. 188 » See Journ. Bomb. Geog. Soc. vol. VII. p. 152.
and vol. VIII. pp. 140- 45. I incline to think with Pandit ** Nairne Konkan, p. 16; J. B. B. R. A. 8. vol. X. Bhagvan1A1, that Chemuli is Chemuda in Trombay, at the pp. 316-49; Yalo's Cathay vol. I. p. 227; and Ind. Ant. vol. head of Bombay harbour,-ED.