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THE INDIAN ANTIQUART.
(MAT, 1902.
The maps do not show any name answering exactly to that of Vavvulatalla, the chief town of the group of twelve villages which included Pangarika.10 But it seems likely that Vavvalatalla is now represented by the modern Talkhair of the Atlas abeet No. 56 and of the Survey map of the Bheer Circar, a small town or large village foarteen miles towards the east-south-east from Pangry.'
Also, the maps do not show any place that can be conclusively identified with Uppalika, the chief town of the three hundred district. The only trace of the name that I can find anywhere in the locality to which we are fixed, is the Oopli' of the Atlas sheet No. 56 and of the Survey map of the Bheer Circar, a village on a small river called Koonka,' sixteen miles south-south-east from Talkhair.' And it is possible, of course, that this place, now an ordinary villago, may in ancient times have been of sufficient size and importance to be the chief town of a territorial division. But it seems to me more probable that Uppalikå may bave been the ancient name of Bheer itself, the chief town of the district of that name in the Nizam's Dominions, from which "Talkhair' is distant only twentyone miles north-east-by-east. In other maps and in gazetteers, the name of this town figures 88 Bhir,' 'Beer,' Bir,' and 'Bid;' and, with a very exceptional marking of the long 1, it is shewn as 'Bid,' in lat. 18° 59', long. 75° 49', in the Indian Atlas quarter-sheet No. 39, N., E. (1895). The true form of it seems to be certainly Bid. The word bidha, which is very familiar in the Kanarese form bidu, means 'a halting place, a oamp, an abode.' The ancient Tiravadabida, "the camp of Tiravada," seven miles to the west-south-west from Kolhậpur, is now known as simply Bir,' . Bid' that is B14.20 In the prefix in the name of the Bhir Kingaon' of the Atlas sheet No. 38 (1857), which is shewn as 'Birkingaon' in the quarter-sheet No. 38, S. E. (1886), about fifty-six miles towards the north-west-by-north from Bheer,' Bid, we have, no doubt, the same word bida, marking that place, also, as one at which kings and governors would encamp on tours of inspection and troops would halt on marches. Bheer, Bid, must surely have had originally some more specific appellation, to distinguish it from other places, in the same part of the country, which were used as camps. And it seems to me highly probable that it may have been known in former times as Uppalikabida, "the camp of Uppalika.”
THE WRECK OF THE “ DODDINGTON," 1755.
BY SIR RICHARD C. TEMPLE. (Concluded from Vol. XXXI. p. 191.)
A Narrative of the Peoples Behaviour on Bird Taland, Which I should have Remark'd in my Journall, but durst not, haveing no place to Secrete my papers but lay Exposed to Every One, and was Inspected into Daily by several so that if I had mentiond any thing disagreeable to them, Should not have Been Suffer to keep a Journal att all.
July 17th. As soon as it was Day Light, we all Assembled together, And for some time only Bewail our Misfortunes. At Length being Roused awaken'd] by the dismall prospect that Appeared before us. Some went to see how The Land lookd further in the Country, while the Others that Stayed With me desired I would still continue their Officer, and they would Obey me in all
1 I do not find the name Vavrulatalla anywhere at all, except perhaps in the case of a small village near the Travellers' Bungalow at 'Thurrodah' on the high-road from Nandgaon to Aura gabad. The name of the village is shown in the Indiaa Atlas sheet No. 88 (1857) as 'Baboolthail,' which is very possibly a printer's mistake for
Babooltball. The village is in lat. 20° 11. and long. 745 64. It is about ninety miles away towards the north west from Pangry.' And it has, of course, no connection with the Tavvulatalla twelve of the record.
See Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 215, and the Addition, and Vol. XXIX, above, p. 279, note 89, * This is the last of the corrections in Another hand.
