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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1902.
place named Agastyatirtha or Agastyatirtha, gave to a certain Brahmaņ # village (gráma) named Erathana, (measuring) nine-hundred (ploughs ?),11 in a small territorial division, consisting of forty-two villages, which seems at first sight to be not distinctly specified by name but to be placed in a larger territorial division called the Villibvara or Billisvara pathaka. It defines the position of Erathana by means of eight surrounding khétalos or villages of agricultural peasants. And it places them as follows; on the east, a village (gráma) named Nagamva, and Tantika; on the south-east, Vatapadraka; on the south, Linga vata-Siva ; on the south-West, Indötthans ; on the west, Vahunadasvan; on the north-west, Temvaraka; on the north, Talapadraks; and, on the north-east, a village (gráma) named Kuruna.
Mr. Dhruva told us that the Ersthans of this record is Erthân in the Olpad taluks of the Surat district, a village, between the Kim river and the Tapti, which may be found in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 23, S. E. (1888), in lat. 21° 23', long. 72° 52'. He added certain details which seemed to bear out that statement circumstantially. And he plainly was furnished, though very vagaely and inaccurately, with information, which he did not verify, about some of the surroundings of a Certain Erthân which really is the Erathiņa of the record. But that Erth in is not the Erthan in the Olpad taluks.
The Villikvara or Billikvars of the record, from which the pathaka took its appellation, is to be identified with Balesar or Baleshwar, small town two miles on the north of Palsana, the head-quarters of the Paļsânâ subdivision, on the north bank of the river. Mindhola, Mindhála,' or Mindho1A, 13 of the NausÂrt division of the Baroda territory; it is shewn as
Balesar' in the Indian Atlas Sheet No. 23, S. E. (1988), in lat. 21° 6', long. 73° 2', and in the same way in the Trigonometrical Survey sheet No 34 (1882) of Gujarat. And it may be remarked here that the composer of the record, writing at this points particularly clumsy verse, no doubt meant to describe the Villikvars or Billisvara pathaka as itself consisting of forty-two villages, though the language actually used by him conveys, if construed strictly. & different meaning.
The Erathana of this record is the Erthan' of the Atlas sboet, shewn as Brthán' in the Trigonometrical sheet No. 15 (1879), tyo miles west-north-west from Balèsar. NAgamvå or Nagambe seems to have disappeared ; at any rate, the maps do not shew any trace of such a name : but Tantika is represented by Tati Jagra,' 'Táti Jagra, one mile south-east-by-east from Erthan. Vatapadraka has become "Wardala,' one mile south-east from Erthân. Lingavata. Siva is 'Lingad, two and a half miles south-by-west from Erthân. Indotthans seems to have become . Rauls or Wakhtana, Raula or Wakhténa,' two miles towards the south-west from Erthân. Vohunadaban or Bahuņadaban is 'Boned,' two miles west-by.south from Erthân. Temvaráka or Tembaraka is Timbarwa,' in the Chôrasi tâluks of Surat, one mile on the north-west of Erthân. Talapadraks is Talodra, one mile and a half north-half-east from Erthân. And Kuruns is 'Karan, one mile and a half north-east from Ertbûn.
11 The published text runs (plate iii , lines 6, 7) - gråmam .....Dhifor Viyilikvara-pathak. Aatar-dvichatydrichia-marokhyske Erathipa-barafatam aded, olc. And the published translation runs "gave ...... village ...... in the Ersthåņa Nine-hundred in the sub-distulot of forty-two and the district of (Vi- Or) Dhilltevara." But the lithograph distinctly shews - gamath ...... Villikvara ...... Erathanath Daya-batam, ete. The word navaata, nine-hundred, can only indicate, in some way or another, the extent of the village. And, from others of the Gujarat records, it seems probable that we have to undertand hala, ' plongh,' and waland-messure.
13 The record seems to use the same character to denote elthen or throughout. 13 Regarding this name, see page 254 above.
14 In Vol. V. above, p. 146, Dr. Bühler has given another instance in which the ancient name Yutapudraksis epresented by modern Wardla,
