Indian Antiquary Vol 48

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

Page 293

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Baaye-Bassein in the province of Bombay. Baśya is mentioned in one of the
Kanheri inscriptions. It was included in Barâlâtê (Barâr), one of the seven divisions of Parasurama-kshetra. The principal place of pilgrimage in it is the Bimala or Nirmala Tirtha mentioned in the Skanda Purana. The Bimaleśvara Mahadeva was destroyed by the Portuguese (Da Cunha's Hist. of Chaul and Bassein). It was the kingdom of the Silâhåras from whom it passed into the hands of the Yüdavas in the thirteenth
century (JRAS., vol. II, p. 380). Batadhân-A country mentioned in the Mahabharata (Sabha, ch. 32) as situated
in Northern India : it was conquered by Nakula, one of the Pandavas. It has been supposed to have been the same as Vethadvips of the Buddhist period (see Vethadvipa): Nee JASB., 1902, p. 161. But this identification does not appear to be correct, as in the Mahabharata (Bhishma P., ch.9 ; Sabha P., ch. 130), in the Markandeya Purana, ch.57 and in other Puråņas, Båtadhana has been named between Bålhika and Abhíra, and placed on the west of Indraprastha or Delhi; so it appears to be a country inthe Punjab. Hence it may be identified with Bhataair. Bátadhana has, however, been identified with the country on the east side of the Sutlej, southwards from Ferozepur (Pargiter's
Märkandeya P., p. 312, note). Batapatrapura---Baroda, the capital of the Gaikwar, where Kumarapala fled from Cambay
(Bhagavanlal Indraji's Early History of Gujarat, p. 183). Batapi-See Bâtâpipura. BAtapipura-Badami near the Malprabha river, & branch of the Krishna, in the
Kaladgi district, now called the Bijapur district, in the province of Bombay, three miles from the Badami station of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. It was the capital of Pulakebi I, king of Maharashtra (Mo-ho-la-cha of Hiuen Tsiang) in the middle of the sixth century A.D.; he was the grandson of Jaya Simba, the founder of the Chalukya dynasty. He performed the Aévamedha sacrifice. It was Pulakesî II, the grandson of Pulakesi I, who defeated Harshavardhana or Siléditya II of Kananj. There are three caves of Brahmanioal excavation, one of which bears the date A.D. 579, and one Jaina cave temple, A.D. 650, at Badami. One of the caves contains a figure composed of a bull and an elephant in such a way that when the body of one is hid, the other is seen (Burgess's Belgam and Kaladgi Districts, p. 16). Båtâpi is said to have been destroyed by the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I (Ep. Ind., vol. III, p. 277). The name of Båt apipura was evidently derived from Bå tâpi, the brother of llvala (of the city of Manimati-soe Ind. Ant., XXV, p. 163, note): Båtapi was killed by Rishi Agastya
on his way to the south (Mbh., Vana, ch. 96). See Ilvalapura. Batoua-Same as Batesvaranátha (Agni P., ch. 109). Batesvaranatha-Same as silasangan.. The temple of Bataśvaranåtha is situated
four miles to the north of Kakalgaon (Colgong) on the Patharghatå Hills called also Kasdi Hill. The Uttara-Purâna describes the rook excavations and temple of Bateśvarnáth a