Indian Antiquary Vol 48

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

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of Akbar, Man Singh made the Dilaram garden on the bank of the Tai Kautara Lake at the foot of the Amer palace or fort. Within the latter is the temple of the goddess called Jasareswari Kali taken away by Man Singh from Jessore after subjugating Pratápaditya.
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Ambasanda-This village was evidently situated on the present site of Giriyek. See
Indranila-Guha and Giriyek (MB., p. 298). Ambashtha --The country of the tribe of Ambutai of Ptolemy: they lived on the northern
part of Sindh at the time of Alexander and also on the lower Akesinos (McCrindle's
Invasion of India by Alexander the Great, p. 155). Ami-Eleven miles east of Chhapra containing the temple of Bhavânî, which is one of the 52 Plhas, where a fragment from the body of Sati is said to have fallen. According to the Tantra-Chûd amani, the Pithas where the dissevered limbs of Satî are said to have fallen. are 52 According to the Sivacharitra, they are 51; according to the Devt. Bhagavata there are altogether 108 Pithas (Pt. vii, ch. 30). The Upa-Pithas or minor Plthas are 26 (Kalika-Purâna, chs. 18, 50, 61). mrakůta-Parvata-It has been identified with Amarakantaka (Meghadúta and Maha
mahopadhyâya Hara prasad Sastri's Meghadůta-Vyakhyd, p. 3). Anahila-Pattana-Virawal-Pattana or Pattana, called also Anihilwar in Northern Baroda in
Gujarat, founded in Samvat 802 or A.D. 746, after the destruction of Valabhi by Banaraja or Vamgaraja. The town was called Aņahilapattana after the name of a cowherd who pointed out the site (Merutunga Acharyya's Prabandhachintamani, ch. 1; Merutunga's
Therdvalt, ed. by Dr. Bhau Daji). Hemchandra, the celebrated Jaina grammarian and lexicographer, flourished in the Court of Kumâra pala, king of Anahilapattana (A.D. 1142
1173), and was his spiritual guide: he died at the age of 84 in A. D. 1172, in which year Kumarapala became a convert to Jainaism (Bhau Daji's Brief Notes on Hemachandra) but according to other authorities, the conversion took place in A.D. 1159 (Tawney's Intro., Prabandhachintamani, p. iii). After the overthrow of Valabhs in the eighth century, Apahilapattana became the chief city of Gujarat or Western India till the fifteenth century. For the kings of Arabilapattana, see R. C. Ghosh's Literary Remains of
Dr. Bhau Daji, pp. 138 to 140; JRAS., XIII, p. 158. It was also called Anahilla pura. Anamala-Same as Anoma. Anandapura--Vadnagar in northern Gujarat, seventy miles south-east of Sidhpur (St. Martin, as oited in McCrindle's Ptolemy), but there is still a place called Anandpur, fifty miles north-west of Valabhi. It was anciently called Anarttapura (see the two copperplate inscriptions of Alina of A.D. 149 and 651). It was visited by Hiuen Tsiang (Burgess' Antiquities of Kathiawad-Kachh, p. 84). Anandapura or Vadnagar is also called Nagara which is the original homo of the Nagara Brahmans of Gujarat. Kumarapala surrounded it with a rampart (Dr. Bühler, Ep. Indica, vol. 1, p. 296). Bhadrabahu Svami, the author of the Kalpasútra, composed in A.D. 411, flourished at the court of Dhruva Bena II. king
of Gujarat, whose capital was at this place (see Dr. Stevenson's Kalpasútra: Preface). Ananta-Naga-Islamabad, the ancient capital of Karmira on the right bank of the • Jhelam,