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TOPOGRAPHICAL LIST OF THE BRIHAT-SAMHITA.
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vanaugha, the collection of forests, in the members of the community of ascetics western division, xiv. 20.
" whose permanent abode was in the caveVanga, a country, and the people of it, in temples at Vallúraka," and who had come to
the south-east division, xiv. 8; misc. ref., pass the rainy season at Kârlê; the other v. 72, 73, 79; ix, 10 ; x. 14 ; xvi. 1; xvii. two records, however, seem to mean that a 18, 22; xxxii. 15. See also "Vaiga, and branch of the sainghą from Vallûraka ultiUpavanga.' The Vanga countries (Vanyéskre; mately settled at Kârlê, and gave its name loc. plur.) are mentioned in the Méharauli to one or more of the caves there: there inscription of the emperor Chandra (Gupta seems no foundation for the suggestion, ibid. Inscriptions, p. 141).
p. 101, note 1, that Vallúraka was the Vanga, a variant of Vanga, q. v.; misc. ref., ancient name of Karlê itself). Under the xi. 60.
Sanskritised name of Elậpura, the place is Vardhamana, a city or country, in the eastern also mentioned in connection with the Rash
division, xiv. 7 ; misc. ref., xvi. 3; lxxix. trakūta king Krishňa I., 'for whom the 21; xciv. 2. It is the modern Bardwan in "Kailasa temple" was constructed there Bengal.
(Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 228). Vasáti (v. l. Vaśâti), in the northern division, Vêņâ, a river in the southern division, xiv. xiv. 25; misc. ref., xvii. 19.
12; -diamonds are obtained there, lxxx. 6; Vasumat, a mountain, in the northern division, misc. ref. iv. 26; xvi. 9. xiv. 24.
Vêņumati, a river in the north-west division, vasuvana, 'the forest of Vosus or spirits,' in xiv. 23. Albêrûnî says, "Vēņumati (?), i. e. the north-east division; xiv. 31.
Tirmidh." Vatadhana, a people in the northern division, vetravati, a river; misc. ref., xvi. 9.
xis, 26 : misc, ref., xvi. 22. The text of xvi. Vidarbha, a country in the south-east division, 22 shews that the name.is Vatadhana. But xiv. 8. See also · Vaidarbba. Vidarbha is on xiv. 26 Albêrûni gives "Dasêra ; Kava- mentioned in one of the Nâsik inscriptions tadhana," instead of "Dasêraka and Vâta
(Archæol. Surv. West. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 109). dhina." Monier-Williams says that, in Viddha, a country, and the people of it; miso. addition to being the name of a degraded
ref., v. 41, 71 ; xvi, 11. See also Vaideha, tribe, the word means the descendant of an and Vaidê haka.'
outcaste Brâhman by a Brahman female. Vidiśâ; misc. ref., xvi. 32. Monier-Williams Vatsa, a people in the middle country, xiv. 2; gives the word as denoting (1) the capital
and in the south-east division, xiv. 8; -1 of the district of Daśârņâ, and (2) a river in misc, ref., x. 5; xvii. 18, 22.
Mâlwá. Vēdasmriti, a river; misc. ref., xvi. 32.
Vidyadhara, a class of supernatural beings; Vellúra, a town in the southern division, xiv.
misc. ref., ix. 27. Kern translates by "the 14. It is, undoubtedly, the well-known
inhabitants of Fairy-land;" and identifies Vera!, Yerola, Elûrê, or Ellora, in the
them with the Teutonic "elves." Nizam's Dominions, where the cave-temples
Vindhya mountains; "the inhabitants of the ere. The place is also mentioned, as Vallûra recesses of the Vindhyas," or the people (for Vellûra), in the inscription at the Bud. dwelling near the boundaries or at the end of dhist vikara, known as the Ghatotkacha the Vindhyas (Vindhy-ánta-vásinah), in the cave, near Gulwada in the neighbourhood south-east division, xiv, 9;- the forests of of Ajanti (Archæol. Suru. West. Ind. Vol. IV. the Vindhyas (Vindhy-áțavi), xvi. 3; pp. 139, 140); and as Valûraka, or probably the range spoken of as one of the breasts of more correctly Valláraks (for Velldraka), the earth, the other being the Himavat mounin three Buddhist inscriptions at Kårle tains, xliii. 35; -misc. ref., zii: 6; xvi. 10, 12 (Archeol. Suro. West. Ind. Vol. IV. pp. 101, (perhaps an interpolation); lxix. 30. The 108, 113: as regards the first of these Vindhya mountains are mentioned in one of records, I differ from the published transla- the Násik inscriptions (Archæol. Suru. West. tion, and take the record to mean that the
ind. Vol. IV. p. 109). In other epigravillage of Karaika was granted to some phic passages, they are mentioned as one of
