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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
(Vol. XXVIII
Talarara Arjunadatta of Anavta aktivarman's present graut was a grandson of Amülya Arjunadatta. That a purely civil officer, viz., Dēsākshapatalāļhikrita, that Arjunulatta of the present record was, had also the title talanıra, which means a noble person,' is interesting. This office is mentioned in some Nāgārjunikonda Prakrit inscriptions and also in the Allürı Brühmi epigraph."
Of the places mentioned in the inscription, Singhapura, the capital of the kiny, occurs in many other records of the Kalinga kings and has already been located at Singapuram near Chicacole (Srikakulam) in the present-day tūluk and district of the same name. Sakunaka, the donated village, which is stated to be in Āvi-pārisva (in the district) of Varāhavarttani, finds mention as Sakunagrama in the Andhavaram plates of Ganga Anantavarman as one of the villages situated on the boundary of a village (name not clear) in Varāhavartani. Sakunagrama is in this record described as touching other villages like Dirghavăța and Sindhivasi. The last two may be identified with Dirghāsi and Sindhuvāda in the same tāluk. Sakuņakagrāma of our grant must lie somewhere in the neighbourhood of these villages in the same tāluk. I am unable to establish at present its exact identification with any modern village in this locality. But that the territorial division Varāhavartani should be located in this and the adjacent tāluk of Tekkali is more than certain ; for, a number of villages mentioned as situated in this ancient division in some E. Ganga grants are all identifiable with their modern representatives in the Tekkali and Chicacole täluks. The following table illustrates this.
Modern name.
Taluk.
Name of the village as in the
inscription.
Reference.
1 Röhanaki .
.
.
.
Chicacole
.
.
.
Above, Vol. XXIII, p. 62.
Ronanki, hamlet of
Singupuram.
Naogam
.
.
.
2 Navagrama 3 Siddhartthaka .
Tekkali Chicacole
. .
. .
.
.
Siddhantam
.
.
Ibid, p. 67. Above, Vol. XIII, p. 213,
and Vol. III, p. 127.
.
In the late E. Ganga inscriptions, the territorial division Kõluvartani is mentioned and Krislina Sastri considered the division as being the same as Varāhavartani since kola is a synonym of varāha. Sten Konow located this division roughly along the course (vartani) of the Varāhanadi which rises in the Golkonda (Golugoņda) Hills to the north of Narasapatam and flows into the Bay of Benga! at Vatāda. Mr. G. Ramadas states that it is probably the region between the Vamsadhara and the Någāvali.? Both these locations are approximately correct, since the modern Chicacole and Tekkali tāluks are situated in this area. The derivation of its name from varāha ' boar,' is interesting as thero existed another territorial division called after krðshtu, 'jackal,' viz., the Kröshtukavarttani. Presumably the areas were so named cwing to profusion of boars and jackals in them. I am unable to dentity Āvipsnisva in which Sakunaka lay. If pārisva is a mistake for parsva, then the village or locality was called simply Āvi. The name, however, seems to be non-Sanskritic.
1 ARSIE, 1934-5, part II, item 3. a Ibid. Above, Vol. XX, p. 7 n. and ARSIE, 1924, part II, item 1. * Above, Vol. XII, p. 4. • C. P. No. 6 of 1951-52.
Above, Vol. IV, p. 185, 1. 5. • Ibid., Vol. XI, p. 149.
hed. Vol. III, p. 127. Thid., Vol. XXV. p. 116 and n.
