Indian Antiquary Vol 07

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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ANANDAPURA IN SAURASHTRA.
JANUARY, 1878.]
us to think that this can be the Anandapura alluded to by Hiwen Thsâng, it is just as likely as not that the date quoted in the duha is wrong, and it may be Samvat 624, which would place the founding of the city in 568 A.D. There is, however, one great objection to this, viz. that in A. D. 568 the Chuda samas had not, as far as our present knowledge extends, entered Saurashtra. Other solutions of the difficulty are-that this Ananda of the legend following is quite another person than the Ananda mentioned in the two duhas, and that the first Ananda was a Yadava, and the second Ananda, though a Yâdava also, one of the Chudâsamâ branch. The following verses show that the second Ânanda imprisoned R& Ka w âd of Junagadh, and in vain desired him to perform obeisance. The four duhás are evidently fragments of a longer poem, and the name Ananda, as well as the imprisonment of Râ Kawâd by a king of the name of Ananda, corresponds to the famous story of the imprisonment of Ra Kawâd on the Shial Bet by a Raja of Kalyâna, and his release from bondage by Ug â Wâlâ. As, however, the first kavita alludes to the imprisonment of Rå Kawâd, I give them for what they are worth :
दुही ३.
पाव हड मे पीयो, हवे मुळे हाथ;
जोर सघली जाणीओ, कर मजरो कवाट.
Your strength is fully known:
Make, O Kawât, a humble salutation."
लाजे गढ गरनार, नव सोरठ नीचुं जुए. "The Râ replied in a kingly manner, How should I bow myself to you? Gadh Girnår would be shamed,
And the nine divisions of Sorath would have to look down.'"
This Ananda and his successors reigned at Anandapura till Samvat 1320. It is said there were seven kings of this dynasty, of whom the last was Amarasinha. After his time the Panchala was deserted, owing first to the invasion of the emperor Muhammad Toghlak of Dehli, and afterwards to the incursions of the Sulțâns of Gujarat, and Anandapura itself became waste. In Samvat 1664, however, a Châran narned Budhasi, an inhabitant of a nes, or hamlet, in the adjoining hills, having lost his cattle in the forest which then covered the Panchâla country, wandered hither in search of them, and seeing the town wall, temple, tank, &c., on his return told the Kathi chieftains, under whose protection he lived, of the fact of Anandapura lying thus desolate. Those chieftains, viz. Khâchars Jethsur and Miâjal, who sprang from the
"Thy feet are in the stocks,
What avails it now to lay your hand on your Khâchar house of Chotilâ, on hearing this, moustache ?*
दुह ४. कवाट बोल्यो कोपकर, हठ म कर राण; अनंत सुर उगे नही, माझ छंडे मेराण. "Kawât replied angrily :
O Rânâ, do not be obstinate; Ânant! the sun would not rise, And the ocean would abandon its bed (were I to act thus).""
दुहा ५.
कर मजरो कवाट, आखे राजा अनंत;
परणावी बेसार पाट, गट थापुं गरनार पत्य.
To twist or curl the moustache is considered among Rajputs as a gesture of defiance.
The word here,means the three salams made by an inferior when saluting the Raja in kacheri.
The nine divisions of Sorath, no-khanda-Sorath, are
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"Kawat, make your salutation,' So Raja Anant directs:
'Having married you (to some one) I will restore you to your throne,
I will establish you lord of Girnârgadh.'"
दुहो ६.
ते बोल्यो राह, केणीपर मजरो करूँ;
moved thither from their previous residence in the Thân gâ' range and took possession of the place, and ruled there for twenty-seven years, and their descendants are now to be found at Aniâli, under Jasdan, and other places. Now Khâchar Mulu Nâgâjan of Sejakapura was the son of their maternal aunt, and was therefore
cousin of the Anandapura Khâchars Jethsur and Miâjal, and constantly used to go and stay with them at Anandapura for ten and twenty days at a time. Now there was in the ruined gate of Anandapur one stone in the archway which looked as if about to fall; when the Khâchars Jethsur and Miâjal rode under this archway they used to put their horses to a gallop for fear lest this constantly alluded to in both tradition and bardic poetry.
"The Thânga range of hills is situated in the Panchala to the south of the Rajkot-Wadhwin highroad. The range to the north of this road near Chotila and Thân is called the Mandhava range.