Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

Page 314

KAN
KAP
fort, the remains of which still exist; the palace is said to have been built by Ajaya Pala who was killed in 1021 A.D., and it was perhaps from this palace that Přithvi Raj carried off Sa oyukta (Bhavishya P., Pratisarga P., Pt., III, ch. 6). 2. That part of the Kaveri, on which Uragapura (Uraiyur), the capital of Påndya, was situated (see Mallinâtha's commen
tary on Raghuvamia, canto vi, v. 59) was called Kanyakubjanadi. Kanya-Tirtha-1. In Kurukshetra. 2. On the Kaveri. 3. Same as Kumari. Kapala-Mochana-Tirtha.-1. In Bârânasi or Benares (Siva P., I, ch. 49). 2. In Mâyâpura (Padma P., Uttara, ch. 51). 3. In Tâmralipta or Tamluk. 4. In the river Sabarmati in Gujarat (Padma P., Uttara, ch. 53). 5. On the river Sarasvati called also Ausanasa Tirtha in Kurukshetra (Mbh., Salya, ch. 40). General Cunningham places the holy tank of Kapala-Mochana on the east bank of Sarasvati river, ten miles to the
south-east of Sadhora (Arch. 8. Rep., vol. XIV, pp. 75, 77). Kapild-1. The portion of the river Narbada near its source which issues from the western
portion of the sacred Kunda, and running for about two miles falls over the descent of seventy feet into what is known as the Kapiladhârâ (Cousen's Archæological Survey List of the Central Provinces, p. 59; Padma P., Svarga, ch. 22). 2. A river in Mysore (Matsya P.,
ch. 22, v. 27). Kapiladh Ar4-1. Twenty-four miles to the south-west of Nasik : it was the hermitage of
Kapila. 2. The first fall of the river Narbada from the Amarakantaka mountains. The Kapild-eangama is near the shrine of Amareswara on the south bank of the Narbada.
See Kapila. Kapilagrama-1. The hermitage of Kapila Rishi in the island of Sågara near the mouth
of the Ganges (Brihat-Dharmma P., Madhya, Kh., ch. 22). The ruins of a temple dedicated to him are situated on the south-east corner of one of the minor islands into which the island of Sågara is divided by creeks and rivers. See Sågara-sangama. 2. Same as
Siddha-pura (2). Kapllavastu-The birth-place of Buddha. It has been identified by Carlleyle with
Bhuila in the North-western part of the Basti district, about twenty five miles north-east of Fyzabad. He places Kapilavastu between the Ghagra and the Gandak, from Fyzabad to the confluence of these rivers (Arch. 8. Rep., Vol. XII, p. 108). General Cunningham identifies it with Nagarkhes on the eastern bank of the Chando Tal near a large stream named Kohậna, a tributary of the Râpti, and in the northern division of Oudh beyond the Ghagrå river; and he supposes that Mokson is the site of the Lumbini garden, where Buddha was born. But Dr. Führer, on the suggestion of Dr. Waddell, has discovered that Kapilavastu lies in the immediate neighbourhood of the Nepalese village called Nigliva, north of Gorakpur, situated in the Nepalese Terai, thirty-eight miles north-west of the Uska station of the Bengal and North-Western Railway. The Lumbini garden has been identified with the village Paderia, two miles north of Bhagabanpur. The birth of Buddha occurred under a Sal tree (Shorea robusta) in the Lumbini garden when Maya Devi, his mother, was travelling from Kapilavastu to Koli. He was born according to Prof. Max Müller (History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 298) in 557 B.O., during the reign of Bimbisara of the Sisunaga dynasty of Magadha, and died in 477 B.O., but according to Prof. Lessen, and the Ceylonese chronology, he was born in 623 and died in 543 B.O., The ruins of Kapilavastu, according to Dr. Führer, lie eight miles north-west of Paderia. P. C. Mukherji has explored the region and identified Kapilavastu with Tilaura, two miles north of Tauliva which is the head