Epigraphia Indica Vol 24

SR No.: 032578
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 472
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XXIV.
Bhāgalpur and Kira that near Baijnāth in the Kängrā valley. Lăța is generally identified with Central and Southern Gujarat ; but may have included some northern territory also!. Kun. tala has already been shown to be the name of the country under the rule of the Later Chalukyas. Kulāñchā, the town founded by the sage Kāchara is evidently identical with Kölāñcha, Krõdāñchi or Krödāñja met with in the epigraphic records ranging in date from the tenth to the twelfth century A. D. which have been discovered in the modern provinces of U. P., Assam, Bihar, Orissa and Mälwal. From the statements in these records the place seems to have been a stronghold of the Brāhmaṇas of the Sandilya-gotra, most of whom belonged to the Sámavēda. According to the tradition recorded in the Kula-pañjikās of the Rādhi and Vārēndri Brāhmaṇas, five ancestors of these Brāhmaṇas came to Bengal from Kõlāñcha at the invitation of the king Adiśūra for the performance of a Vedic sacrifice. The present inscription shows that the place was also the home of the Kayasthas. In a copper-plate inscription from Assam the village is said to have been situated in Srāvasti. Our inscription seems to indicate that it was situated on the Ganges, but its exact location I am unable to fix.
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1 Above, Vol. VII, pp. 85 f.
Mr. J. C. Ghosh mentions six such chartera (sce Ind. Cul., Vol. II, pp. 358-9). To thom I would add the Kahla copper-plate grant of the Kalachuri Södhadēva, above, Vol. VII, pp. 85 ff. In l. 44 Kielhorn doubtfully read Kulandhiya which should be Kulāñchiya (i.e. of Kuläicha). It is noteworthy that the Brāhmana Jālu mentioned therein as hailing from Kulāñcha belongod, like other Brahmanas of that place, to the Sandilya-gotra and the Sāmavēda.
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