Indian Antiquary Vol 32

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(PEBRUARY, 1903.
Dalissa) are strongly suggestive oi sotne reference to place which is mentioned as Balisa in the Bagamrå plates of A. D. 655 and as Valise in one of the Bagumri records of A. D. 915, and which is the modern Wanesa' of the mape, five miles south-east-by-east from Bagamra.25 But, to the supposition that the writer of the record intended to mention & Valisa dadra and to place TathaUmbará in it, there is the objection that there ought not to have been any mention of Tatha-Umbara at the beginning of the passage, and the text ought to have ron: - Valis-Ahår-antahpâti-Tatha, Umbará-gramo. I am somewhat inclined to think that the text is faulty between dhara and antahpati, and that what was really intended may have been :- Tatha-Umbar-ábára-vishay-ântahpâtiTatha-Umbara-grâmô, -" the village of Tatha-Umbará lying in the Tatha-Umbará dhdrariahaya."20 It is, however, impossible to decide finally, at present, what may really have been meant.
In specifying the boundaries of Tatha-Umbara, the record places on the cast a village (grama) the name of which is plainly presented, not as Ushilathana as given in the published text, but as Dashilathana, for Dashilathana. On the south, it places a village named Ishi. On the west, it places a village named Sadkiya. And, on the north, it places a village named Jaravadra.
This record, also, has been localised by Dr. Bühler. Taths-Umbara is the modern Bagumra itself, in the Palsânâ subdivision of the Nausâri division of the Baroda territory; it is to be found in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 28, S. E. (1888), in lat. 21° 8', long. 73° 8', about four miles northby-east from Passana, and nine and a half miles south-by-east from Kamrej, the position of which has been specified on page 52 above. Dashilathana is the Destan' of the same map, and the
Dastan of the Trigonometrical Survey sheet No. 34 (1882) of Gujarat, about two miles east-northcast from Bagumri. As indicated by Dr. Bühler, the Trigonometrical sheet shews Ied (old sito), answering to the Ishi of the record, about two miles south-south-east from Bagumra and half a mile on the south-east of a place which it marks as "Tájpar (old site).'30 And, also as indicated by him, Sadkiya is the Sanki' of the Atlas skeet, and the 'Sánd of the Trigonometrical sheet, one mile on the south-west of Bagumra, and Jara vadra is a village, about one mile and a half on the north of Bagumra, the name of which is given as 'Jolwa' in both the maps. To this, I have to add that the name of the latter place is given in the Postal Directory of the Bombay Circle (1879) as 'Jorwa,' with r instead of 1, and that the existence of this variant of it is fully borne out by the Sanskritised name presented in the present record, though that name would more correctly represent a modern Jarod.
Oi the prefix bag in the modern name Bagumrâ, I have suggested an explanation in Vol. XXXI. above, p. 397 f. Dr. Bühler was inclined to look upon the prefix tatha, attached to the old name of the village in the present record, as possibly a corruption of the Sanskpit tirtha and the Prakrit titha.31 I am more disposed to connect it with the name of a neighbouring village, which is shewn as Tantithais' in the Atlas sheet and as 'Tántithaia' in the Trigonometrical sheet. The lands of this
* Ses Vol. XXXI, above, p. 897.
# Conaparo, for instance, the expression " the Karmanêya 6hdravishaya" in line 21 of the Surat plates of A. D. 192 and in line 88 of the Nauart plates of A D. 739; see the Proceedings of the Seventh Oriental Congress, Pp. 926,293.
# An inspection of the lithograph will shew at once that the first akshara is oertainly not the initial u, which we ievo very plainly twice in Umbard in the preceding line, and again in ubhaga, line 8, and in udak-átisargėna, line 23, and that it can only be the dental d, or possibly the lingaald. There can bardly be any doubt that, in the sacond component of the name, a long has carelessly been omitted there are various son of that omission in this record, for instance, immediately after this word, there is grama or gramath by mistake for grom , and thana is a frequent ending of place-Dames in Gujarat. * Vol. XVII. sbeze, . 184 a.
It is difficult to understand how Dr. Bühler, having the Trigonometrical sheet apparently in his own hands, came to overlook the existence of Dastán,' aud so failed to detect the right reading of the name in line 18 of the text. Reading Ushilathana, he proposed to find, not the place itself, but a survival of its Dame, in "probably "Dow settlement, founded by the inhabitants of Ushilathana when the site to the east of Bagumri was abandoned." in the Chalthán' of the Survey shoot, about two and a half miles west-by-north from Bagumri. * 'lui' and 'Tájpur' Cro Dot shewn in the Atlas sboot.
11 Vol. XVII. above, p. 184 b.