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4 Varahabhumils is the next division of Pundra. The central portion is a forest : along the skirt of it is Dhavalabhumi. In one direction it is contiguous to Tungabhumi, and another to the Sekhara mountain; and it comprises Varabhumi, samanta-bhumi, and Man-bhumi. This country is overspread with impenetrable forests of sal and other trees. On the borders of Vara-bhumi runs the Darikebi river. In the same district are numerous mountains, containing mines of copper, iron, and tin. The men are mostly Rajaputs, robbers by profession, irreligious, and savage. They eat snakes, and all sorts of flesh; drink spirituous liquors, and live chiefly by plunder, or the chase. As to the women, they are, in garb, manners, and appearance, more like Rakshasis than human beings. The only objects of veneration in these countries are rude village divinities. The principal towns are Pushpapattan, Kusumapattan, Chatranagar, Raghunathpur, Dhavalapura, Sivullapala, and Barahanagar. The chief villages are Chakraveshtana, Kichandra, Suvernatapanna, Nandala, Kesara, Bayapur, two Sarangas, Virabandhana, Suvarnarikki, Patri, Kadali, Trapushabad, near the Sitavati, and Vakamtotheka.
“Varddhamins16 is the next division of Pandradeśa. The country is highly populous, and the people are pious and cultivated, obedient to the laws, and diligent in their religious duties. The chief object of worship is the bálágrám, which is to be found in every respectable house. Amongst the principal cities are Hataka, near a forest; Vilwapattan, west of the Bhagirathi, noar the Saraswati river; and Samantapattan on the borders.
u Vindhyaparswa17 is the last division of Paindradeśa. It lies north of Ranastambha, south of the Ganges, west of Kikata, and east of Tîrtharâja. It comprehends a population of a very miscellaneous character. The greater namber are addicted to the worship of Devi, eat flesh, and drink spirituous liquors. In the early part of the Kali age, this country was the residence of a Kshatriya prince, who assumed the garb, the attributes, and name of Vasudeva, and passed himself off for the real Krishna. The divine lord of Dwaraka, however, vindicated his rights, and a war ensued, in which the impostor was slain.
«The principal towns and villages are Sudarsana, near the mountains ; inhabited chiefly by hunters and fowlers and people of low caste. Pushpagrama within the hills near the Son. Dhararaksha, near the hills on the GAliká river. Guragram, on the side of the hills near the Son. Mudgalapur, amongst the hills near the Chandraprabhâ river. Shahpur, Marjarapur, 18 Sivapur, and Majapapur, on the banks of the Ganges, Barada on the Son; and Manigram on the Parnâ river. In the south-west quarter, about three yojans from the Bhagirathi, is Maraha-Nagar, which is the residence of the governor of the province, amidst forests and and mountains. Kantita-patan is situated upon the Ujjalê river, near the Ganges, and Burapatan on the Chandraprabhi.
“Besides these, Yavanas have many cities and villages in these parts, as Janahabad, Nemaj-Ganj, Sher-ganj, Sikandarpur, &o., &c."
MISCELLANEA. THE DATE OF ONE OF THE KANHERI and I now find that the European equivalent for
INSCRIPTIONS OF AMOGHAVARSHA I. the date of the inscription referred to, which I At the time when I edited the Kaphori ins- have given, ib. note 9, is altogether wrong. cription of the Rashtrakata Amoghavarsha The inscription is dated, in words, and again I., which is published ante, VoL XIII. p. 134, I partly in figures, in the Saka year 775, and the was not able to calculate Indian dates for myself; Prajapati samvatsara, on the second lunar day
18 " Probably part of Midnapur, Pachit, and perhaps part of Ramgarh. The Sekhara mountain is probably Paravanath hill near Madhuvan."
16 "Bardhwan : but how far the limits of the district coincide with those here intended, cannot be conjectured ; for our text is but a small part of the original, several pages of the Ms. being here defective."
11 Side of the Vindhya,' a tract about Chunkr and Mirsapur; for Rans-stamba is Chandel and Bhagelkhand; and Tirtha-rája is a synonym of Prayag.
15 "This may be meant for Mirzapur."
