Indian Antiquary Vol 48

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

Page 301

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Bidarbhanadi-The Pain Gangâ.
Bidarbhanagara-Same as Kunḍinapura.
Bidas pes-The river Jhelum in the Punjab.
Bidegha Same as Bideha (Satapatha-Brahmana I, 4, 1, 14).
BID
Bideha-Tirhut, the kingdom of Râjâ Janaka, whose daughter Sita was married to Ramachandra. Mithila was the name of both Videha and its capital. Janakpur in the district of Darbhanga, was the capital of Raja Janaka. Benares afterwards became the capital of Bideha (Sir Monier Monier-Williams' Modern India, p. 131). About a mile to the north of Sîtâmârhi, there is a tank which is pointed out as the place where the new-born Sitâ was found by Janaka while he was ploughing the land. Panaura, three miles southwest of Sîtâmârhi, also claims the honour of being the birth-place of Sîtâ. About six miles from Janakpur is a place called Dhenuka, (now overgrown with jungle) where Ramachandra is said to have broken the bow of Hara. Sitâ is said to have been married at Sîtâmârhi. Bide ha was bounded on the east by the river Kausik? (Kusi), on the west by the river Gaṇḍaka, on the north by the Himalaya, and on the south by the Ganges. It was the country of the Vajjis at the time of Buddha (see Baisali).
Bidisa-1. Bhilsa, in Malwa in the kingdom of Bhopal, on the river Betwa or Vetravati, about 26 miles to the north-east of Bhopal. By partitioning his kingdom, Râma chandra gave Bidisâ to Satrughna's son Satrughâti (Râmâyana, Uttara, ch. 121). It was the capital of ancient Daiârna mentioned in the Meghadata (Pt. I, v. 25) of Kâlidâsa. It is called Baidisa-desa in the Devi-Purána (ch. 76) and the Ramayana. Agnimitra, the son of Pushyamitra or Pushpamitra, the first king of the Suiga dynasty, who reigned in Magadha in the second and third quarters of the second century B.C., was the viceroy of his father at Bidiśâ or Bhilsa (Kâlidâsa's Malavikâgnimitra, Act V). Agnimitra, however, has been described as the king, and his father as his general. The topes, known by the name of Bhilsa Topes, consist of five distinct groups, all situated on low sandy hills, viz., (1) Sanchi topes, five and a half miles south-west of Bhilsa; (2) Sonâri topes, six miles to the south-west of Sanchi; (3) Satdhâra topes, three miles from Sonâri; (4) Bhojpur topes, six miles to the south south-east of Bhilsa, and Andher, nine miles to the east south-east of Bhilsa. They belong to a period ranging from 250 B.c. to 78 A.D. (Cunningham's Bhilsa Topes, p. 7). 2. The river Bidisâ has been identified with the river Bes or Besali which falls into the Betwa at Besnagar or Bhilsa (Wilson's Vishnu P., Vol. II, 150). Bidyanagara-1. Bijayanagar on the river Tungabhadrâ, 36 miles north-west of Bellari, formerly the metropolis of the Brahmanical kingdom of Bijayanagar called also Karnata. It is locally called Hampi. It was founded by Saigama of the Yadava dynasty about 1320 A.D., According to the Mackenzie Manuscripts (see JASB., 1838, p. 174) it is said to have been founded by Narasingha Rayer, father of Krishna Rayer. Bukka and Harihara were the third and fourth kings from Sangama. For the genealogy of the Yâdava dynasty, see Ep. Ind., vol. III, pp. 21, 22, 114 and 223. It contains the celebrated temple of Vithoba (Meadows Taylor's Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore, p. 65) and also of Virûpâksha