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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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Lôhagrama is the Lohogaon' of the Deccan Topographical Survey sheet No. 20 (1878), about sixteen miles towards the south-south-west from Newåsa, the head-quarters of the Newasa tâluka of the Abmadnagar district, Bombay Presidency; in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 38 (1857), it is wrongly placed about three miles towards the west-north-west from its position as given in the Topographical sheet. Ghodégrama is the Ghorégaon' of the Topographical sheet, about three miles east-north-east from Lohogaon ;' in the Atlas sheet No. 38, it is shewn as Gorebgaon.' Vanjuli is the 'Wánjoli' of the Topographical sheet, two and a half miles south-by-west from Lohogaon;' in the Atlas sheet No. 39 (1855), it is shewn as
Wanjolee.' Chifichaviharajha is evidently the 'More Chinchorá' of the Topographical heet, two and a half miles towards the west-by-soutb from 'Lohogaon ;' in the Atlas sheet No. 89, it is shewn as Chinchoreh Moreea.' And Sonnahi is the 'Sonái' of the Topographical sheet, four and a half miles north-by-west from 'Lohogaon ;' in the Atlas sheet No. 38 it is shewn as "Sonuee.' These villages are shewn as Lohogaon, Ghoregaon, and Sonai, in the Atlas quarter-sheet No. 38, S. E. (1886), which places Lohogaon in its proper position, and as Wánjoli and More Chinchora in sheet No. 39, N. E. (1895).
With these identifications established, we can see that the Ramapurt of the record, the town which gave its name to the seven-hundred district in wbich the village of Lohagramu was situated, is the modern Rahurt, the head-quarters of the Rahuri täluka of the Ahmadnagar district. Rahuri is the Ráburi' of the Topographical sheet No. 20, and the • Raliooreo of the Atlas sheet No. 38, and the "Rahuri' of the quarter-sheet No. 38, S. W. (1886), in lat. 19° 23', long. 74° 43'. Lohogaon,' the ancient Lohagrama, is distant from it about twelve miles towards the east-south-east.
The city of Pundavardhana, which is mentioned as the place from which the grantee's father had emigrated, and the name of which seems to be given in precisely the same form in the Amgachhi Hate of Vigruhapâladeva III.,10 is, no doubt, the Pundravardha na of other records, and the "Paundravardhana, subject to the kings of Gauda," of the Rajatarasigini, iv. 421; and it seems to be the Puñavadhana which is referred to in two of the votive inscriptions at Sañch.11 For opinions which have been expressed regarding the identification of it, reference may be made to the Rev, S. Beal's Si-yu-ki, Vol. II. p. 194, note 18, and Dr. Stein's Kalhana's Rájatarangini, Vol. I.
160, note on verse 421. Its position ought to be capable of being determined very closely, even if it cannot be actually fixed, by means of the villages which are placed in the Pundravardhana bhukti by the KLülimpur plate of Dharmapaladeval and the Dinajpur plate of Mahipaladêva.13
The places mentioned in the Kharda plates of A. D. 972. This record has been edited by me in Vol. XII. above, p. 263 ff., with a lithograph. It was originally brought to notice, in the Jour. R. As. Soc., F. S., Vol. II., p. 379, by Mr. W. H. Wathen, who published the text of it, with a translation in the same journal, Vol. III. p. 94 ff. In his first notice of it, Mr. Wathen said that "it was found in the town of Kardla, in the “Dekkan." In his second notice of it, he described it as "an inscription on three copper plates
transmitted by Captain Pottinger, said to have been found at Kurda, in the Dekkan." In dealing with it, I said, for some reason or other which I cannot now explain, that Kardla or. Kurda' seemed to be Kard in the Taloda tâluka of the Khandesh district. But it is fractically certain, now, that the real find-place of the record must have been the Kurda' of the Indian Atlas sheet No. 39 (1855), the Kurda' and 'Kurdlah' of Thornton's Gazetteer of India, Vol. III. (1854), pp. 224, 225, a town in lat. 18° 38', long. 75° 32', about twelve miles towards the south-east-bs-east from Jamkhed, the head-quarters of the Jamkhed taluka of the Ahmadnagar
10 See Vol. XIV. above, p. 167, text line 24. 14 See Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 217.
11 Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 10€, No. 102, and p. 386, No. 217. 15 See Jour. Beng. As, Scc. Vol. LXL p. 78,
