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the name is interpreted Khāravela may be equated with krishņa-vilva. But as suggested in the Mahāniddesa, vela of Khāravela may have been derived from vela meaning 'the shore' or 'the wave breaking upon the shore'. If so, then Kbāravela must be equated with krishņa-vela, meaning
the sea' or 'the ocean'; lit : 'that which is girt by watery black shore."
1. P. 504 ; "Katamā kālavelā ? Kālātikkantam vachan, na bhä seyya
kālām asampattam vāchar na bhāseyya." 2. Kalidāsa's famous description of the sea or ocean may serve, it is hoped, to clear up this meaning of Kharavela or krishņa-vela :
"Dūrädasya chakranibhasya tanvi, tamála-tali-vanaraji-nila Ābhati vela lavanāṁvarüfer dharanibaddheva kalarka-rekha."
Raghuvamsa, Canto XIII. (Velà tirabhūmih dhārā mbaddha chakrīsritā kalamkarekhū malinyarekhā iva abhati)-Mallinātha. Velā syāt tiranirayah iti visvah' Qtd. Parua, OBI, p. 267.
Note A:
K. P. Jayaswal (JBORS, Vol. XIV, p. 191) says-"As to the name Gardabhila--the father of Vikramāditya of Ujjayini, who is reputed to bave founded the 58-57 B. C. era, we may take the puranic reading "Garda bhila and Gardabhin' and the Jaina reading Gaddabbilla or Cadda. bhila and Rasabha as Sanskritization of khara viz. ass in Khāravela ; and vela was, probably, turned into bhilla or bhila alternatively, which find echo in the Somadove story of the marriage of Vikramāditya with the daughter of Bhila, sovereign of Kalinga.'
Note B :
Dr. H. C. Seth (Nagpur University Journal, No. VIII; Vikrama Volume, pp. 539.45) has suggested that Kharavela was identical with Gardhabhila on grounds, that :
(1) The name Gardbabhila may be reminiscent of Kbāravela. Gardabha is equivalent to khara, which means an ass, while vela was turned into bbila later on.
(2) Kbâravela and Gardabhila, both flourished in the first century B. C.
(3) It seems that Gardabhila snatched Malwa from the Sungas and also stemmed in that region the rising tide of the Andbras ; and this
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