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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1902.
The names of Vadavura, Pallitavada, and Padmanála, seem to have disappeared; at any rate, I cannot trace anything representing them, even as names of hamlets. But the other names suffice to fix the locality to which the record belongs. Vatanagara is certainly the *Wurner' of the Atlas sheet No. 38 (1857), the 'Wadner' of the Topographical sheet No. 5 (1877), and the "Warneir' of the Topographical sheet No. 9 (1875): these various spellings, of course, all represent Wadner; and the place is a small town or large village, in lat. 20° 14', long. 74° 5, in the Chándor (Chandwad) taluka of the Nisik district, about twentytwo miles towards the north-east from Näsik. Ambata is the 'Amb' of the Atlas sheet No. 38, and the 'Ambé' of the Topographical sheet No. 8 (1875), in the Diņdori taluka, about five miles north-east-by-east from Dindorf, and eight and a half miles on the west of Waờner. VArikheda is the "Wurkher' of the Atlas sheet No. 38, and the Wárkhair' of the Topographical sheet No. 8, close on the south-west of 'Amb, Ambe.' And the Pulinda river is a large nullah, flowing southwards close on the west of the village-sites of Amb, * Ambe,' and Wurkher,' Wárkhair,' which joins the Kådava, Kadiva, or Khadva river about a mile on the south-west of Work her.' Wárkhair: the name of the nullah is entered as • Unenda' in the Topographical sheet No. 4, and as 'Unanda' in the Topographical sheet No. 8; the real name seems to be Unanda,
Vengi, which is mentioned as the place of abode of the grantee's grandfather, was the capital of & province, known as the Vengi or Vengt mandals, which is most familiar to us in connection with the Eastern Chalukya kings. According to a record of A.D. 1186, it was & sixteen-thousand province ;' that is to say, a province which included, according to fact or tradition or conventional acceptation, sixteen thousand cities, towns, and villages. The position of the capital seems to be very closely marked by the still existing village of Pedda-Végi, "the larger Végi," about seven miles north of Ellore (Eldru), the head-quarters of the Ellore táluka of the Godavari district, Madras Presidency Pedda-Végi is shewn in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 94 (1899) as Pedavaigie,' in lat. 16° 48', long. 81° 10. There is, somewhere close by, another village, called Chinna-Vegi," the smaller Végi," which, however, cannot be found in the map. And it seems that Sir Walter Elliot has told us that the evidences of ancient buildings, and the many curious mounds, which probably cover the remains of the old city, extend from Pedda-Végi as far as Chinna-Végi and Dendularu, This last-mentioned place is shewn in the map as Dendaloor,' in lat. 16° 45', long. 81° 13', about five miles towards the south-east from Pedavaigie.' It is mentioned as Londulura in the Chikkulla plates of Vikramêndravarman II.S
When I was preparing this record for pablication, Mr. W. Ramsay, I.C.S., gave me the identification of Ambaka with Ambe' and of Varikhôda with Warkhód,' and also gave me the name of the nullah as Unanda ; seg Vol. XI. above, p. 157. The record, bowever, seems to have been fully localised even before that time; for, Mr. Reid's translation of it presents * Ambegaon' as the modern name of Ambakagrama and Warkher' as the modern name of
It has been suggested that Pallitavads in the modern. Paramori,' the 'Purmore of the Atlas sheet No. 88 (1857), and the Parmor of the Dooonn Topographioal Survey sheet No. 8 (1875), - about two miles on the west of 'Amb,' Ambé,' which is the Ambaks of the record; see Gax. Bo. Pres. Vol. XVI., Navik, P. 185, Doto 1. And the village stande, of course, in the required position. But it is difloult to understand how the name Pallitada could pass into any such form 'Paramori.'
The name of the river into which the Palinda-Unendl lows, is given a Cadira' in the Atlas sheet No. 88, and as 'Khadra' in the Topographical sheets Nos. 4 and & It is certified u Kidrá or Kaderd, in Nigar character, in Bombay Placse.
• Sea Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 50, verne 85.
6 Regarding the numerioal components in the ancient territorial appellations, see Vol. XXIX. above, p. 277, and note 18.
• The identification of Vengt with Pedda-Végi appears to be due to Sir Walter Eniot. I am not ablo to refor to his paper on the subject.
+ See Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Madras, Vol. I. p. 36.
• See Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 195, and, for the correct spelling of the modern name, Vol. V. Additions and Corrections.
