Indian Antiquary Vol 42

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[JANUARY, 1913.
victorious camp against the Gangas was, we are informed, stationed at Mayyanagara, obviously the same as Mânyapura where the royal residence of the Gangas was fixed in the 8th century, and which has been identified with Mayne, north of Nelamangal in Mysore. The grantees were the Brahmaņas living in the Karahâta Ten-thousand and one Bhatta-Vasudeva, to whom two parts only were assigned. The village granted was Kumarigrâma, and we are told that this village was given at the request of two persons called Vasisbțla-Srikumâra and Jaivanti-Phaņaiye. Along with Kumarigrama four more villages seem to have been granted. They were Bhamaropara,
in the Pûnaka district (vishaya). Their boundaries also have been specified. To their east were Khabbagrâma, Vorimagrima and Dadimagrâma. To the south were the Kbadiraveņa bills. To the west were Alandiyagrama and Thiuragrama and to the north the Muila river. Almost all these localities can be identified on the survey of India Atlas Sheet No. 39. Thus of the villages granted Kumarigrama is Karebgaon, Bhanaroparå Bowrapoor, Araluva Ooroolee, Sindigrama Seendowneh, and Tadavale Turudee. Of the villages situated on the east, Khari, bbagrâma is Khamgaon, Vorimagrama Boree, and Dadimagrâma Daluemb. Khadiraveņa, the name of the hills to the south, cannot be identified, though of course these hills are there as specified. Of the villages on the west Alandiyagrama and Thiuragrama are doubtless the well-known Ålandi and Theur, the first better known as choráchí Alandi and the second as the favourite resort of Madhayrao Peshwa who died there. The river Mùila obviously corresponds to the present tane Maļå of a river which joins the Mutha near Poona, their conjoint stream flowing afterwarda eastwards and passing by the north of the villages mentioned. And it is this conjoint river that appears to have been known in those early days by the name Moila, though it is now restricted to one of its feeders. But the most interesting fact recorded in this connection is the mention of Pusaks as the name of the district wherein the villages were situated. Puaka obviously i Poona. That Poona is an ancient place has long since been known. It is well-known that the two Shaikh Salla dargahs on the river bank were built about the cluse of the 19th century on the site of two old temples called Narayanesvar and Paņeśvar. Again, the caves near the Fergusson College are another indication of the antiquity of the city. But the most important and ancient monument is the rock-hewn temple of Panchålesvar situated in the Bhamburda suburb, which has been assigned by archaeologists to the 7th cetury A.D. We have thus ample and sure proof that Poona was a very old place. But it was never dreamt that the name Poona also was equally ancient and that it was the head-quarters of a district in those early times as it now. This however, is now quite clear from the fact that Punaka, which can stand for uothing else but Poona. is spoken of as the district which contained the villages granted.
MISCELLANEA. KAKATIKA MONKS.
| bhikshul' and explains that by 'kukkuti' here is IN J. R. A S. for January, 1912, Professor meant, by a transferred epithet, the space over H. Ludere. while commenting upon a Brahmi which a hen can fly at one flight inscription, in which the word ka katikdnani 00- who limits his vision over so much of the round curs, observes--
before him as can be covered by one (prover
bially short) Night of a hen is meant by the word. It is more difficult to say who is meant by kaka
There must have been bhikshus wbo submitted tikanan. I take this to be a proper name, and
themselves to this sort of dircinline "885 cooking place in a Vihara can hardly be
the sense of sight and to avoid tbe hirisa of intended for anybody but the monks living there,
small insects. The Buddhists and Jainas set kakatika would seem to be the name of those
a great store by ahirai, and the sight of a Jaina monks, though I cannot say why they were called
sidhu, brushing the ground before him with a
silk broom and treading with his neck bent low at Taking the Professor's assumption that kaka
a snail's pace, is not rare even now in India. tika in the name of an order of monks to be cor If we assume that some bhikshwe were called Tect, may I venture to offer an explanation Tokaukkutikas after this habit of theirs, we can me the word appears to be an apabhramea from understand the lutter contemptuous sense of 'hySanskrit kaukkutika formed by Panini 4. 4. 46.
pocrite' attributed to this word by the metrical Unfortunately, Patalijnli does not comment on
Sadekrit ko as. It is with a certain diffidence the tea but the straitself explains the form that I offer this explanation, but the word tion of kukkutim pafyati - kaukkutikah & Sarynaydın' in Panini's sátra itself supports my *savjndyan,' i.e., not in the literal sense of 'oue lconie
conjecture, I think. who secs #hen', but as a name, or attributive class name. The Kafika illustrates by kaukkuţiko Ajmer.
CHANDRADHAB GULERI.
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