Indian Antiquary Vol 32

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

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FEBRUARY, 1903.] NOTES ON INDIAN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY..
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south of Raivam, which Dr. Bhandarkar had said seems to be the. Wand Kharee,' is a small river or large nullah, flowing immediately on the south of Riyamål, the name of which, not entered in the maps, was written by Dr. Bühler Wand Kheri.' And Dr. Bühler identified Araluan, on the north of Raivam, with the 'Alwa' of the maps, the village-site of which is ubout two miles due north of the village-site of RAyamål. As was indicated by Dr. Böhler, the maps do not shew, in this locality, any name answering to the Sunthavaqaka or Sun havadaks of the record, on the west. of Raivam. Two miles towards the north-west from Râyâmål, they shew a village Sayan,'. Sáyan.' But he considered this to be a probably a new settlement." The places mentioned in the spurious Mudiyanur plates which purport to have been
issued in A. D. 888. I have given the preceding four notes as a preliminary to a full exposition of the sparious nature of the Umêta, Bagumra, and Ilað records. I do not purpose dealing at present with the spurions records of Mysore in the same way. Before they can be conveniently treated in full, we require to bave accurate and critical editions of at any rate some of them. One step, however, is to localise them, as far as possible, by an exact identification of the places mentioned in them. And it is convenient to give here a note on one of them from that point of view.
This record is No. 47 in the List of Spurious Records given by my in Vol. XXX. above, p. 214 ff. It has been edited by Mr. Rice in Vol. XV. above, p. 172 ff. And, from his remarks, we know that the original plates were found at Mudiyanar, in the Muļbagal taluka of the Kolar district, Mysore.
The record claims that, on a specified day in the month Karttika of the Vilambin saxpatsura, Saka-Samvat 261 (current), falling in October, A, D, 338, and in the twenty-third year of his reign, an alleged Bâna king Srivadhůvallabha-Malladêva-Nandivarman, whose first biruda is presenteil in lines 50 and 51 f. in also the simpler form of Vadhůvallabha, granted to twenty-five Brâhmaņs16 a village (grama) named Mudiyanar in the Hodali vishaya.
It states that, when he made this alleged grant, Nandivarman was at a town named Avanyapura. And, in the passage specifying the boundaries of Mudiyanur, mention is made, amongst a variety of details, of the following places, easily capable of identification : on the east, (a rilloge. named) Kuladipa ;47 somewhere on the south and west, a village named Uttagrama, and (a rillage named) Kottamangals; somewhere on the north of them, a village named Kolattar; and then, again, Kuladipa, somewhere towards the south-east from Kolattar. As was pointed out by Mr. Rice in publishing the record, the village claimed, and the other places named above, still exist and can be identified. And it only remains for me to complete the matter, by shewing exactly where they are, and by correcting a misreading of another place-name, of some interest, which is mentioned in the same passage.
The Avanyapura of this record is the modern Åvani, in the Mulbagal taluka of the Kolar district, Mysore. It is shewn as Awnee' in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 78 (1891), and as Ávani' in the Madras Survey sheet No. 171 (1890), and as 'Avani' in the Atlas quarter-sheet No. 78.
65 The same name, Sunthavadaks, no doubt survives in the case of a village the name of which is given as Santhwad' in the Postal Directory of the Bombay Cirole (1879), and as 'Sathwad' in the Indian Atlas wheet No. 23, S. E. (1888). It is five miles north-north-east from Chikhll, the headquarters of the Chikhil taluka of the Surat distriot. And in Vol. XIII, above, p. 116, at a time when I had not any maps to refer to. I suggested that this Sunthwad' might perhaps be the Sunthavadaka or Bupthay Adaka of the record. But none of the other place-napos, mentioned in the record, are to be found thera, and this 'Sunthwad' is some fifty-fve miles away towarda the south-by-east from Ankleshwar, with the rivers Kim, Tapti, Mindhola, Párna, and Ambika intervoning, and it has, of course, no connection with the present record.
16 Names and other details are put forward in respeot of only four of them.
47 The original seems to have the short i in the third syllable of this name in all the four places in whioh it is mentioned.
4 Yol. XV. abore, p. 172 a, p. 175. a.