Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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[ als austerities here and the hill is a IV, 1, 5; VIII, 18, 5. In Dravida even now held sacred to him country whose kings did not at and is a place of pilgrimage for first submit to Karakanda but Jains. The inscriptions of Asoka, were subsequently overpowered. Rudradamana and Skandagupta Mentioned in Asoka inscriptions are found engraved here on a as Keralaputra, and by Periplus single rock.
as Cerobothra. The country, at Trasa ( sago) IV, 11, 2. A hill 18 one time, comprised the present
miles from Brindavana in the kingdom of Mysore, Coimbatore, district of Muttra, Krishda is Salem, South Malabar, Travan. said to have taken it upon his core and Cochin. According to little finger and held it as an Ptolemy (2 od Cent. AD.) its umbrella over the heads of his Capital was Karour or Karur, cattle and townsmen to protect also called Vangi. The Pandya them from the deluge of rain country lay to its south. poured upon them by Indra. als II, 10, 5; IV, 1, 5, VIII, 18, 5. ( Mbh. Udyoga, chap. 129). In Dravida country. Its king +911, 3, 12; II, 5, 2; X, 9, 12, did not at first submit to Kara. Capital of Apga country, ruled kanda but was subsequently by Dhadi-vahana son of Vasu- overpowered. It is mentioned pala and father of Karakanda. in the Varttika of Katyayana, insIt was the birth-place of the criptions of Asoka and the epics. twefth Tirthamkara Vasupujya. Identical, probably, with Hiuen It is metioned in the Ramayana, Tsang's Choliya (Chu-li-ye or Mahabharata and other Puranas. Jho-li-ye) which he describes Hiuen Tsang mentions it as as a small district 2400 li or 400 Chenpo and locates if at a dis- miles in circuit and 1000 li or tance of 300 li or 50 miles east 167 miles south-west from Dhava. of Monghyr, on the strength of kataka. It is the modern Corowhich Cunningham identifies it mandal Coast. Its capital was with Patharghata, 24 miles Uraiyur on the Kaveri and later east of Bhagalpur, But N. L. Kanchipur, Combakonum and Dey identifies it with Campa- Tanjore, During the time of our pagar four miles to the west of author the Caudas seem to Bhagalpur. (Cun. Geo; Dey have been the leading power of Geo.)
the South,
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