Indian Antiquary Vol 17

SR No.: 032509
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1888.
name of the month. According to Dr. Schram's a thicket of Ficus glomerata. This word is still calculations the new-moon day of Jyaishtha, frequently used for naming villages and the Saka-Samvat 415, corresponds to May 31, 493 maps show in the districts close to the Tapti A.D. On that day there was no eclipse of the fall half dozen of villages, called Urura. sun, which, as the inscription asserts, occurred It is, therefore, very probable that the syllaon the day when the grant was made. But on bles Tatha and Bag have been prefixed in the next new-moon day, June 29, there was an order to distinguish this Umbara (Umra) from annular eclipse, not visible in India. (See also other homonymous places. What the meaning Th. v. Oppolzer, Canon der Finsternisse No. of Bag may be I am unable to guess. But 4037 and Blatt. 81 where the astronomical | Tatha may possibly be a corruption of the details regarding the eclipse are given.) It seems Prakrit tittha and Sanskrit tirtha. The value probable that this eclipse ia meant. The dis- of the above identifications is that they crepancy in the name of the month may have prove the dominions of the Gurjara princes been caused by a mistake of the writer or by to have extended south of the Tapti. an erroneous intercalation. However that I must confess that formerly I believed may be, the date possesses little importance that the southern boundaries of the Gurfor the history of Dadda II.; as the oldest of jara state had been identical with those his other grants (U.) is dated fifteen years of the present Collectorate of Broach, and earlier, and the latest (I.) two years later than find that all other scholars, who have touched our inscription. The date of the former is the question, have expressed the same opinion. the full-moon day of Vaisakha, Saka-Samvat On looking over Nos. 34 and 35 of the map of 400; and that of the latter, the new-moon day the Trigonometrical Survey (Gujarat Series) of Jyaishtha, Saka-Samvat 417.
I have, however, discovered that the Uméti More interesting are the geographical grant confirms the information which that of names. With the help of the map of the Bagamrâ furnishes. The villages, named in Trigonometrical Survey, Gujarat Series, No. the former, are likewise traceable, and lie a 34, it is possible to identify nearly all the places few miles to the north-east of those mentioned mentioned. The village of Tatha-Umbara is in the latter. the modern Bagumra, where the plates were According to U., plate II., 1. 11, the village found. For the boundaries are
granted was Nigada, which belonged to the According to the
According to the Map. 116 villages of the bhukti of Kamaniya. This Inscription. to the west Samkiya. to the west Sanki.
is the modern Nagôd, which lies at short to the south Ishi. to the south the old
distance west of the town of Kamroj. For site of Isi.
its boundaries areto the north Jaravadra. to the north Jalwa.
According to the Inscription.
According to the Map. to the east Ushilathaņa to the east a deserted to the east Vaghauri. to the east Rudhsite with an old
vârâ. village-tank. to the south Phalaha- to the south Moti] Though the fourth village cannot be traced vadra.
Phalód. in its proper position, the names of the other to the west Vihânî. to the west Vihân. three suffice in order to prove the identity of to the north Dahithali, to the north Dethli. Tatha-Umbara and Bagumra. As regards the Though a village, the name of which corIntter two words, the second parts umbará and responds to Vaghauri, is not found, the close wnuri are corruptions of Sanskrit udambaraka, resemblance of the remaining names suffices to
. This name, too, survives. For north-west of BA- from Gujarat (Verhandlungen des siebenten Int. Or. Con gumrk the map shows the village of Chalthan. This is gresses) as K Armandya. Dr Bhagvanlal declares the probably a new settlement, founded by the inhabitants latter to be identical with Kimlej, ten miles east of of Ushilgthens when the site to the enst of Bagumri was Surat, which, I suppose, is the Kamrej of the Map. abandoned. Similar re-settlements of villages occar I consider it not improbable that this name is a frequently.
mistake for Vaghvara, caused by the resemblance of the • Kamréj is also mentioned in Mr. H. H. Dhruva's syllables rudh and vagh if written with Gujarati Ráthor inscription, (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgen characters. Vaghvard might be the representative of landischen Gesellschaft, Vol. XL. Pp. 322-323, 335) as Vaghauri. Kamwanjia and in Dr. Bhagvanlal's Chalukys grants!