Indian Antiquary Vol 54

SR No.: 032546
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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at the time of Skandha Gupta, in 137 of the Gupta era (The Rudraddman Inscription of Junagar in JASB., Vol. VII; Corpts Ins. Ind., III, p. 88). See Girinagara It was
visited by Nityananda (Chaitanya-Bhagavata, Adi, ch. VI). Suddhapurl-Teruparur, in the Trichinopoli district, sacred to the god Subrahmanya
(Skanda P., Sankara-Samhita, Siva-Rahasya, quoted in Prof. Wilson's Mackenzie Collection.
p. 144). Sudhanya-kataka-See Dhanakataka. (Havell's Ancient and Medical Architecture of India,
p. 140). Sudhapura Soonda in North Canara (Thornton's Gazetteer). Spdharmanagara Thatun in Pegu, on the river Sitang, about forty miles north of
Martaban. Sodra Same as Sadraka (Vishnu P., IV, 24). endra The bountry of tho Sadrakas of the Mahabharata, Oxydrakai or Alexander's
historians and the Sudraki of Pliny, between the Indus and the Sutlej above the junction of the five rivers near Mithankot and south of the district of Multan (McCrindle's Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, p. 236 and Map; and Mh., Sabha, ch. 32; Ind. Ant., I, p. 23).
Their capital was Uoh (called Kuchchee in JASB., XI, p. 371). Sugandha Nasik on the Godavari. It is one of the fifty-two Pithas where Sati's nose is
said to have fallen (Padma P., Adi Kh., ch. 32). Sugandhavartt-Saundatti, in the Belgaum district in the presidency of Bombay. It was
the later capital of the Ratta chieftains (Bhandarkar's Early Hist. of the Dekkan). It was afterwards called Venugráma or Velugráma, the modern Belgaum (Sewell's Sketch of the
Dynasties of Southern India, p. 894). SuhmaSuhma has been identified by Nilakantha, the celebrated commentator of the
Mahabharata with Radha (see Radha and Trikalinga). It was conquered by Pandu (Mbh., Adi P., ch. 113). In the Brihat-samhita (ch. 16), Sumha is placed between Banga and Kalinga and it is mentioned as an independent country in the Matsya Purdna (ch. 113) and Kalli Pardna (ch, 14). Bigandet says in his Life of Gautama (see also Lalitavistara, ch. 24) that the two merchants Tapusa and Palikat (Bhallika) who gave honey and other articles of food to Buddha, came from Okkalab near Rangoon, but according to Dr. Kern from Ukkala or Utkala. They arrived at & port oalled Surama where they hired five hundred carts to carry their merchandise. This port has been identified with the port of Tamralipta (Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabushana's Buddha-deva, p. 143 note); this identification is perhaps correct as Surame may be a corruption of Sumha. In the medieval period Radha was called Lata, Lara or Lala. In the Dajakumdracharita, ch. VI, D&malipta or Tamluk is mentioned as being situated in Sumha, though in the Mahabhdraia (Sabha Parva, ch. 29) and in the Matsya Puriņa (ch. 114), Sumha and Tamralipta appear to have been different countries. (See the history of Sumba or West Bengal in my Notes on the History of the District of Hughly or Ancient Rada in the JASB., 1910, p. 599). There was another country by the name of Sumha in the Punjab conquered by Arjuna. It appears from the Vishnu Purana (pt. IV, ch. 18) that Bali, a descendant of Yayati by his fourth son Anu, had five sons Anga, Banga, Kalinge, Sumha and Pandra, after whom five kingdoms were named. Buddha delivered the Janapada Kalyani Sutta' while dwelling in a forest near the town of Desaka in the
country of Sumbha as Sumha was also called (Telapatta-Jataka in Jataka, Vol. I, p. 232). Suhmottars It is the same as Utlara (Northern) Radha (Matsya P., ch. 113) ; see Radha
Some of the other Puranas have got Brahmottara which is evidently & mistake for Suh.
mottara (Brahmanda P., oh. 49). gakara-kahetra-Boron on the Ganges, twenty-seven miles north-east of Itah, United
Provinces, whero HiranyAkahs was alain by Vishnu in his incarnation as Vartha (Bour)