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SEPTEMBER, 1902.] NOTES ON INDIAN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
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NOTES ON INDIAN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
BY J. F. FLEET, I.C.S. (RETD.). Pa, D., C.L.E.
The places mentioned in the Nausari plates of A. D. 706. THIS record has been edited by Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji in Vol. XIII. above, p. 70 ff., with T a facsimile lithograph. And, from the information given by him, wo know what the original plates were found in excavating some foundations at Nausari, the head-quarters of the Nausâri division of the Baroda State in Gujarat, Bombay Presidency.
The record recites that, on a specified day in the month Magha of the (Kalachuri or Chêdi year) 456 (expired), falling in February, A. D. 706, the Gurjara prince Jayabhata III., who was then halted at a place named Kayvatera, granted to a Brahman, whose father had come from Girinagara and was a resident of an agrdhdra named Sraddhika anda member of the community of Chaturvédins at the Sraddhikâ agráhara, a field on the north-east boundary of a village (gráma) named Bamipadraka in a territorial division called the Korilla pathaka. And, in specifying the boundaries of that field, it places, on the east, the junction of the boundary of a village (gráma) named Golika ; on the south, a tank (tadaka) named Yamalakhallara, and a field belonging to the Mahattara Mahêsvars, and an irrigated field belonging to the barber Dêvaka; on the west, a road going from Sami padraka to a village (gráma) the name of which is to be read as
Dhahattha, instead of Dhahaddha as given in the published text; and, on the north, a tank named Barutakhallara, and a field belonging to the Brahman Narma, a resident of Korilla.
Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji was inclined to identify Kayavatars with Kavi, in the Jambûbar tâluka of the Broach district. Dr. Bühler, however, pointed out that, according to the phonetic laws of the Pråkpit dialects, the name Kâyávatâra cannot become Kävi, and also that Kåvi is mentioned as Kåpika in a local record of A. D. 827. He subsequently gave reasons for saying that Kâyâvatára is probably the moden Karvan or Karvan, a large village, in the Dabhồi subdivision of the Baroda territory, which is shewn in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 28, N. E. (1894), in lat. 22° 5, long. 73° 18. Later on, be identified KArvân with a place mentioned as Karbhana, by " an "attempt at finding a Sanskrit equivalent for the Gajarâtî word," in the Cintra prasasti, of the period A. D. 1274 to 1296, which locates KÅrðhaņa in the Lata country, and says that it is the place to which there came the great Saiva teacher Lakulisa or Nakulisa, who took up his abode there " in order to favour the offspring of Uluks who were long deprived of sons in consequence of a curse " of their father." And, as he has told us, among other points, that the Kârvan Mahátmya asserts that Kårvan was formerly called Kayavirðhaņa or "Kâyârahan (Kdy arohana ?)," and that Kârvan " was according to tradition the place where Mahadeva, who had been born as Nakulesvara in the “family of a Brahman of Ulkapuri, or Avâkhal, re-assumed his divine shape," we need not hesitate about accepting his identification of Kâyâvatára with Kârvân.
i See page 396 above, No. 10.
? An inspection of the lithograph will shew, at once, that, 48 We might expect from the ending of the modern form of the name, 'Dhawat,' the third syllable is unqaestionabl first component of the akshara with the of Aghatanani, line 23, and the second component with the th of freshtha, line 40 ; and we may contrast the whole akshara with the dd) of abhivriddhayé and Sraddhik-agrGhara, line 19, and of Suddha, line 30. Vol. XVII. above, p. 198, note 86.
• Vol. XVIII. above, p. 178. * In Vol. XVIII. above, p. 176, he wrote the name with the dentaln, whereas, in the place referred to in the Dext note below, he wrote it with the lingual ). In the official compilation entitled Bombay Places and Common Official Words (1878), the name is presented with the dental n. The lingual is more likely to be correct.
• See Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 274, and note 8. "Regarding this person, see Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 226 ff.
* Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 274.. . This is the 'Awakhal' of the Indian Atlas sheet No. 23, N. E. (1894), six and a half miles on the south-east of Karyan.'
