Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

Page 225

NOVEMDER, 1922
THE MAFISIIN ATI OF KARTAVIRYA
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before he met Madhurakavi. Mr. Gopinat ha Rao makes Mârran-Kâri the father of Nammâlvâr=Kari-Mårran. But Marran-Kâri's father was Mârran, whilo Nammalvâr's father's father was Pôrrkari; and Nammâ vâr was a Velâla of Kuruhûr, not a Vaidya of Kalakkad. As the Anaimalai templo had to be completed by Matran-Kâri's younger brother, perhaps he had no son. If Nummâlvar had been Marran-Kâri's son, he would not have omitted to sing his father's Anaimalai temple, when he sings the Tiru-Mohur temple hard by (Tiruvay-mozhi, X, i).
Mr. Venkayya says that Tirumangai-âvâr came a decade or two after Nammâ vâr. But Tirumangai, who mentions Vairamegha (a title of Rashtrakota Dantidurga, who defeated the captor of Kanci before 754 A.D.) (E.C., Gb. 61, XI, Tk.: E.I.,IX, No. 4) as being bowed down to (vanangum) by the Tôndai king of Kânci, and as having besieged (tan vali sûzhnda) Kênci (Périya-tiru-môzhi, II, viii, 10), wrote before 754 A.D., as Dantidurga was followed soon after by his uncle Krshna I ; while Nammâlvår singa about Sri-vara-mangalam (Tiruvdy-mózhi, V, vii), th> name . given to Velankuţi by Jatila Parântaka, when granting it to Sujjata-bhatta in his seventeenth year=783 A.D. (1.4., XXII, 71), and so wrote at least thirty years after Tirumangai.
THE MÄHISHMATI OF KARTAVIRYA.
BY KANAIYALAL M. MUNSHI, B.A., LLB. DIFFERENT scholars have claimed different places as being the site of the ancient capital of the Haihaya king Arjuna, Kärtavirya, but no final and incontrovertible conclusion has been reached yet. It will therefore be useful to suggest a few considerations in support of the view which has been put forward by Sirisha Chandra Vidyârnava in his appendix to the English translation of the Matsya Purana published by the Panini Office. According to that view the Mahishmati of Kårtavirya was situate at the place where now stands the town of Broach (Bhrigu-Kachha) in Gujarat.
It is easy to ascertain the characteristics of this Mâhishmati, originally a capital of Naga, son of Karkotaka. Kartavirya captured it and founded MAhishmats. It is adanitted by all authorities that this city stood on the Narmada. In referring to it all authorities further agree in indicating its proximity to the ses; and in distinctly mentioning that the tidal waves of the sea came right up to the city and that it was a base for naval power.' " When he (Kartavlryo) agitated the waters of the river in his gambols, the Narmada trembling with fear at bis sight and becoming highly astonished surrendered herself to bin. He alone with his thousand arms swelled it by putting the water of the sea into it; and increased it as it increases in the monsoon. And the ocean being thus agitated by his thousand arms became subdued by him, and he extended his seapower so that the residents in the Patala became inoffensive and quiet."
Somehow this peculiarity appears to have been lost sight of by those who have tried to loonto this city; but it is so clearly given in the Puranas that it admits of no doubt on this point.
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Matuya P., XLIII, 29-80; Vayu P., XXXII, 26Harivania I, XXXIII, 98. Ibid., XLIII, 81; ibid., XXXII, 28; ibid., XXXII, 28.