Indian Antiquary Vol 52

SR No.: 032544
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 568
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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MAL
Mahotsava-Nagara-Mahoba in Bundelkhand. The wholo Bundelkhand was anciently
called Mahoba from this town. It was the capital of the Chandel kingdom which is universally said to have been founded by Chandra Varman who was born in Samvat 225; he built 85 temples and erected the fort of Kalañjar. The Chandel kingdom was bounded on the west by the Dhasan river, on the east by the Vindhya mountain, on the north by the Jamuna, and on the south by the source of the Kiyan or Kane river. It appears from the inscriptions that the Chandel kings from Nannuka Deva, the founder of the dynasty, to Kirat Singh, reigned from 800 A.D. to the middle of the sixteenth century. It was in the reign of Kirtti Varma Deva, the twelfth king from Nannuka, who reigned from 1063 to 1097 A.D., that the Prabodha Chandrodaya Nataka was composed by Krishna Migra (Arch. S. Rep., vol. XXI, p. 80). The town stands on the side of the Madan Sågar lake, which was excavated in the twelfth century. The Kirat lake is of the eleventh century. Mainaka-Girl-1. The Sewalik range (Kurma P., Uparibhaga, ch. 36; Mbh., Vana, ch. 136),
extending from the Ganges to the Bias. 2. The group of hills near the eastern sources of the Ganges in the north of the Almora district (Pargiter's Markandeya P., ch. 57, p. 288). 3. A fabulous mountain situated in the sea, midway between India and Ceylon (Ramayana, Sundara K., ch. VII). 4. A mountain on the west of India in or near
Guzerat (Mbh., Vans, ch. 89). Malsolia - The coast between the Krishna and the Godåvar! (Ptolemy). It is the Masulia
of the Periplus. See Mahâsala. Mågadhi-See Sumågadhi (Ramdyaņa, I, ch. 32). Majjhima-Desa-See Madhyadesa (Mahvagga, V, 12, 13). MÅkandi-See Panchåla. Makula-Parvata --Kaluha-pâhâd which is about 26 miles to the south of Buddha-Gaya and
about sixteen miles to the north of Chatra in the district of Hazaribagh, is evidently corruption of the name of the Makula Parvata (see Bigandet's Life of Gaudama). Buddha is said to have passed his sixth vassa (or rainy season retirement) on the Makula mountain, which forms the western boundary of a secluded valley on the eastern bank of the Lilajan river, containing a temple of Durgâ called Kuleśvari (Kula and Iśvari). But the place abounds in Buddhist architectural remains and figures of Buddha. On a plateau just in front of the hill on which Kulesvari's temple is situated, and on the eastern side of the ravine which separates the plateau from the hill, there is a temple which contains a broken image of Buddha in the conventional form of meditation. There are also two impressions of Buddha's feet on the top of the highest peak of a hill on the northern side of the valley called the Akasalochana, and figures of Buddha carved in the central part of the hitt with inscriptions which have become much obliterated by time and exposure. The large bricks found at this place also attest to the antiquity of the place. The letter "Ma" of Makula must have dropped down by lapse of time, and kula was corrupted into Kaluha. There can be no doubt that the Brahmins appropriated this sacred place of the Buddhists and set up the image of Durgå at a subsequent period after the expulsion of Buddhism (see my article on the Kaluha Hill in the District of Hazaribagh in JASB., vol. LXX (1901), p. 31), but as Dr. Stein does not approve the above identification (see Indian Antiquary, vol. XXX, p. 90), the Kaluha-pahad may be, as is locally known, the Kolâchala mountain
of the Puråņas. Nala- A country situated to the east of Videha and north-west of Magadha, and on the
north of the Ganges (Mbh., Sabhà, ch. 29), including evidently the district of Chapra,