Indian Antiquary Vol 48

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

Page 315

CHE
CHI
Skanilapiira situated at a short distance to the west of Guzzelhati Pass (JRAS., 1848, p. 11 ) in the Coimbatore district. According to Ptolemy, who lived in the second century A. D., its capital was Karoura or Karur, called also Vanji, situated near Cranganore on the left bank of the Amaravati, a tributary of Kaveri; its larger capital was tálkád (Dr. Burnell's South Indian Palæography, p. 33). Talk&d or Dalavanapura is situated on the left or north bank of the Kaveri, 28 miles south-west of Mysore city, and about 30 miles east of Seringapatam: its ruins are even now called Tåkåd. It was the capital of the Ganga Vamsis from the third to the ninth century A. D., and then of the Cholas and Hoysala Ballalas who, however, removed the capital from Talkád to Dvârâvati or Doragamudra, now called Halebid, in the Hassan district of Mysore in the 10th century. It was taken by the Raja of Mysore in 1634. For an
account of the Chera kings, see Ind. Ant., I, 360; J. R. A.S., 1846, pp. 1-29. Cheta-It is the same as Chetiya or (hetiyagiri. (Vessantara-Jataka in the Jata kas vi, 266;
cf. Spence Hardy's M. B., 119). Cheti-Same as Chedi. Its capital was Sotthivatî (Jatakas, iii, 272), See Suktimati. Chetlya-giri-Besnagar, three miles to the north of Bhilsa in the kingdom of Bhopal,
where Asoka married Devi. By her he had twin sons, Ujjenia and Mahinda, and after wards a daughter Sanghamittå. It was the capital of the country called Dakkhinagiri (Turnour's Mahavamsa, ch. XIII) which is perhaps a corruption of Daśârņa. Dr. Rhys Davids identifies it with Sanchi and Bidisâ, but these two places are very close to Besnagar. According to General Maisey also, Chetiya-giri is Sanchi " with its numerous Chetiyas or stôpas" about 5 miles south-west of Bhilsa (Maisey's Sanchi and its Remains, pp. 3, 6). It was also called Chetiya and Chetiyanagara or Chaitya-giri. It is situated at Triveni or Triple Junction of the rivers Betwa, Bes (or Besali) and Geiga, of which the last is believed to flow underground (Cunningham's Bhilsa Topes,
p. 364). See Bessanagara. Chhatravati-See Ahichchhatra. Chhutudrl-The river Chukki in the Panjab which joins the Bias: it is not the
Satadru or Satlej. Chidambaram-Same as Chittambalam (Derf-Bhagavata; vii, 38). Southern India
possesses five Bhautika or elementary images of Mahadeva, namely, the Kshiti or earth image at Käßchipura, Ap or water image at Jam bukeśvara, Teja or fire image at Aruņât ohala, Marut or wind image at Kalahasti, and Vyoma or sky image at Chidambaram (Dr. Oppert's On the Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsha or India, pp. 379, 380). Siva has eight images of which five are elementary Linga P., Uttara, ch. 12); China-1. China. It is mentioned in the Mahâbhârata (Sabha P., ch. 51 ) and Manu
( cb. X. élk. 44 ). In the medieval period, it was called Maha china. The great wall of China was built by Che Hwang-te in 214 B. o. During the reign of the Emperor Ming-te, Kâbyapamätanga and Dharmaraksha were the first Indian Buddhists who wento China ( 67 A. D.) In the fourth century A.D., the Buddhist religion spread among the Chinese, and the first Buddhist Pagoda was built at Nanking by the Emperor Hiau Twu in 381 A. D. (Edkin's Chinese Buddhism, ch. vi.). 2. Anam (Sahitya-Parishat
Patrika, 1321 B. 8., p. 63). Chintapurni- A celebrated place of pilgrimage on a range of bills of the same name, in Hoshiarpur district, Panjab, containing a temple of Chhinnamasta whose picture is placed behind a Piņa-marti or conicalimage. The temple is on the summit of hillock.