Indian Antiquary Vol 48

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

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Dantapura-The ancient capital of Kalinga (Dathadhâtuvamsa, Turnour's Account of the Tooth-relic in Ceylon-JASB., 1837, p. 860). According to some writers, it is the same as Puri (Jagannatha) in Orissa, which, they say, was the place where Buddha's tooth was kept and afterwards removed to Ceylon. The left canine tooth of Buddha is said to have been brought and enshrined by Brahmadatta, King of Kaliiga, shortly after the death of the former. According to the Dal hávamsa, the tooth was taken from the funeral pile of Buddha by Khema, one of his disciples, who gave it to Brahmadatta, and was kept and worshipped in a temple at Dantapura for many generations. The tooth was taken to Pataliputra in the fourth century A. D., by Guhasiva, king of Kalinga. The tooth is said to have worked many miracles at Påtaliputra to confound the Nrigranthis or Jainag at whose instigation it was ordered to be taken there. Raja Pånclu got the tooth from Dantapura (JASB., 1837, pp. 868, 1059.) It was brought back to Dantapura by king Guhasiva and placed in its old temple. After the death of Guhasiva in battle with the nephews of Khiradhira, a northern king, who had attacked Dantapura for plundering the tooth, it was removed to Ceylon by his daughter, Hemamalâ and her husband Dantakumâra, a prince of Ujjain and sister's son of Guhasiva, in the reign of Kirttisrî MeghaVarpa (A. D. 298-326) who guarded the relic at Anuradhapura: see Anuradhapura (Tennent's Ceylon; Turnour's Tooth-relic of Ceylon; Dathavamsa translated by Mutu Coomara Swami: and Turnour's Dathadhâturamsa in J ASB., 1837, p. 866). It is now kept at Kandy
rivardhanapura in the Maligawa temple. For the procession of the tooth-relic at Kandy, see Maha vamaa, ch.85. It has been variously identified with Danton in the district of Midnapore and with Rajmahendri on the Godavari. But it is now settled that the ancient Dantapura is Puri in Orissa and this identification is confirmed by the tradition that after Krishna was killed by Jara, his bones were collected and kept in a box till king Indradyumna was directed by Vishņu" to form the image of Jaganni tha and put into it belly these bones of Krishna" (Garrett's Classical Dictionary of India under Jagannatha
Ward's History of the Hindoos, I, 206). Dantura-It is evidently a corruption of Dantapura: see Danta pura. (Brihal-samhita, xiv, 6.) Darada-Dardistan, north of Kasmira on the upper bank of the Indus. Its capital was
Daratpuri, which has been identified by Dr. Stein with Gurez (Markandeya P.. ch. 67). It was a part of the ancient country of Udyana (see Monier Williams' Buddhism). Dr. Stein says "Thoir (Daradas') seats, which do not seem to have changed since the time of Herodotus, extend from Chitral and Yasin across the Indus regions of Gilgit, Chilas and Bunji to the Kishangaiga valley in the immediate north of Kasmir" (Dr. Stein's
Rajatarasigim, -Vol. I, p. 47). Darbhayati-Dabhoi in Guzerat, thirty-eight miles north-east of Bharoch and twenty miles south-east of Baroda (Burgess's Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, p. 218, and Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 20). Führer (M.A.I) identifies Darbhavatî with Dibhai, twenty-six miles south-west of Bulandshahar. Dibhai was the Radoph of the Greeks. Darddura-The Nilgiri hills in the Madras Presidency (Raghuvansa IV; Brihatsamhitů,
ch. 14; JRAS., 1894, p. 262). In some editions of the Raghuvamaa it is mentioned
As Darddara. Same as Durddura. Darhanapura-Disa on the river Banas in Guzerat (Brihajjyotishármava). Daru-Vans See Chamatkarapura (Kurma P., II, chs. 37, 38). Same as Dova-daru-vada.
Dåru or Daruka-vana, which contains the temple of Någesa, one of the twelve Great Lingas of Mahâdeya (Siva P, I, 38) has been identified with Aundha in the Nizam'.