Indian Antiquary Vol 16

SR No.: 032508
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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FEBRUARY, 1887.]
EARLY ACCOUNT OF THE DAKHAN.
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king in one of the Vijayan legends for the de- did temple built by the king of Kalinga in struction of the lion which was ravaging his Dantapura to enshrine the tooth-relic of Bud. territory, was successively a thousand, two dha,"—the monastery of Bâvari on the banks thousand, and three thousand pieces of money." of the GodÂvari, *—the hermitage of the recluse A few years later on we read of a present of a of the Sachabaddy rock,"--and the two hermithousand pieces made for the concealment of tages of Punna on the western coast." the doomed infant of the princess Chittâ of | The materials used in the erection of these Ceylon;" and of another thousand being sent buildings were wood, stone, and iron. Chulaafterwards to carry him to a more distant Punna's vihára was built of wood." The hiding place.“ A small quantity of red-sanders undescribed materials for Bavari's monastery was of the money-value of a lakh of treasure :" were carried from Northern Kósala" to the and an annual tribute of chanks and pearls banks of the Godavari : and it was, therefore, with two lakhs was sent from Ceylon to the probably built of timber. The walls of the Pandyan king.55
RAkshasi city of the Horse-king legend, were These legends contain several incidental re- built of stone. The only other reference to ferences to the architecture of the Dakhan building materials is in the case of the iron at this time, both secular and religious. The city of the Rakshasîs in Ceylon, and the domestic buildings are represented by prison of these demons in the vicinity, which palaces, houses, and fragile huts. We have was also built of iron." the palaces of the Naga king of Kalyâņi," and With regard to their form, the palace of the of Kuvêņi" in Ceylon, the golden palace' of king of Kalinga at Kumbhávatî had an apper another king of Ceylon in Buddha's earlier storey:" the tooth-relic temple of Dantapura days, and that of king Pandawasa in the had one or more upper storeys containing generation after his death, with its prison- "hundreds of rooms at the top;"" and these apartment attached to it built upon an isolated numerous rooms imply that it was # very pillar;" that of the Pandyan king of Madhu. extensive building : the prison-chamber of the rå," and of the king of Vanga ; " that of the princess Chittâ built on a pillar, implies that king of Kalinga who received the tooth-relic the royal dormitory with which it communicated of Buddha;'' that of another king of Kalinga 1 was in an upper-storeyed palace : the stair. at Kumbhávati; as that of still another Kalinga case of the palace of king Nalikêra® points also prince, king Nålikêra ; and that of Sinhala's to an upper storey. The palaces had gates and father, with its after-palace,' or women' doors," halls, windows," and staircases." apartments. We have also the palace of the and they had inner apartments for the women." Brahman minister of the king of Avanti, the The princess Chitta's prison had a door commuhouses of the Rakshasis of Ceylon, the Brah- nicating inwards, and a ventilating aperture man's hut" at the door of Bavari's hermitage, opening to the outer air." Some of the cities and the enclosed prison of the cannibal were surrounded by walls," with towers, demon-women.
and surmounted with flagstaffs decorated Examples of the religious buildings are with flags and garlands and umbrella-canoafforded by the hall',10 residence,"i temple, pies." or vihára,' built for Buddha by Punna's The furniture of these buildings, such brother and his brother-merchants," thesplen- as is mentioned in these legends, consisted of * Turn. 15 : ante, XIII. 37...
* Turn. 58, 59. 16 Man. Bud. 334 : Sacr. Bks. X. (pt. 2), 184. 53 Turn. 60. 8 Yan. Bwd. 57.
11 Uph. II. 22: Man. Bud. 260. * Turn. 53.
Turn. 7. " Uph. II. 174. 19 Man, Bud. 260. 1 See references above. » Turn. 7. - Turn. 56, 57. Turn. 51.
10 Man. Bud. 334.
1 Rom. Hist. Buil. 334. al Uph., II. 164. 03 Dath. 40. 63 Man. Bud. 54. ** Rom. Hist. Bud. 333, 336, 336, 388 : Si-yu-li, II. 240, ** Man. Bud. 55. " ante, XIII. 37: 8i-yu-ki, II. 244. 241, 246, 248. Rom. Hist. Bud. 275.
• Soe references in notes 243 and 247. • Rom. Hist. Bud. 333, 334. Man Bud. 884. 8. Man. Bud. 54.
Dath. 38. ** Pa-Hian, 149: Si-yu-ki, II. 241, 246.
66 Turn. 56.
" Man. Bud. 56. 10 Uph. 1.7: Man. Bud. 209 : Sacr. Bks. XIX. 244.
S8 Si-yu-ki, II. 245. ** Turn 57: Si-yu-ki, II. 34. 11 Kan. Bud. 57, 260.
30 Sivuk, II. 245. Dith. 40. Man. Bud. 56. Uph. II. 21 ; III. 112, 113.
os ante, XIII. 37; Si-yn-ki, II. 244. Turn. 57. 13 Kan. Bud. 260. . See references above.
os Rom. Hist. Bud. 883, 885. " Duch. 38: See Uph. I. 286; II. 70, 239: Turn. 241 :
98 Ibid. 384: Si-yu-ki, II. 240. Rock. 10.
OT Rom. Hist. Bud. 884.