Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

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Ketumala-Varsha-Turkestan and the lands watered by the river Chaksu or Oxus (Vishnu
P., ch. 2; Markandeya P., ch. 59). In oriental history, Turkestan is called Deshti Kiptchak from the Kiptchaks who are the primitive Turkish race. It comprises Kharezın (called also Urgendj) as the Khanat of Khiva is called, the Khanat of Bokhara, and the Khanat of Khokand called algo Fergana. Up to the time of Zenghis Khan's conquest in 1225, Bokhara, Samarkhand, Merv, Karshi (Naksheb), and Balkh (Um-ul-Bilad, the mother of cities) were regarded as belonging to Persia, although the government of Khorasan (the district of the sun as it was then called) was under Bagdad (Vambery's
Travels in Central Asia, ch. XII, and pp. 339, 367). Khajjurapura - Khajraha, the capital of the Chandels, in Bundelkhand. Khalatika-Parvata - The Barabar hill in the Jahanabad sub-division of the district of Gaya, containing the Satghara and Nagarjuni caves of the time of Asoka and his grandson Dagaratha. It is about 7 miles east of the Bela station of the Patna-Gaya Railway. Khalatika is evidently a corruption of Skhalatika or Slippery (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. I, p. 32). Some of the inscriptions on the cave show that Dasaratha gave certain cave-hermitages to the Ajivakas (a sect of naked ascetics). The Ajfvakas are also mentioned in the seventh pillar-edict of Asoka issued in the twenty-ninth year of his reign (Bühler's Indian Sect of the Jainas, p. 39). For a description of the Barabar Hill Caves, see JASB., 1847, pp. 401 and 594 (Nagarjuni cavo). To the south and near the foot of the hill are the seven rock-cut caves called the Satghara. Out of these seven caves, three are on the Nagarjuni hill. There is also a sacred spring called Patålgangå.
Not far from it, is the Kawadol hill (see gilabhadra Monastery). Khandava-Prastha-Same as Indraprastha : old Delhi (Mbh., Adi P., ch. 207). Khandava-Vana-Mozuffarnagar, at & short distance to the north of Mirat included in
ancient Kurukshetra. It is one of the stations of the North-Western Railway. Arjuna, one of the Påndavas, appeased the hunger of Agni, the god of Fire, at this place (Mbh., Adi, ch. 225). The name was applied to & great portion of the Mirat division from Bulandshahar to Saharanpur (Hardroar in the Cal. Review of 1877, p. 67). Khåndavavana was situated on a river called Asvaratha (Mbh., Vana, ch. 160). According to the Padma P., (Uttara, ch. 64), Khåndava-vana was situated on the Jamuna, and Indra
prastha, called also Khándava-prastha, was a part of it. Kharkt-Aurangabad. Kharosthra-Kashgar (Dr. Stein's Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan, p. 404). The ancient
alphabets called Kharosthi were introduced from this country into India. It is situated in that part of Turkestan whioh is called Lesser Bucharia. It was conquered by Jengiz Khan, and upon the division of his empire, it fell to the share of his son Jagatai; it Was then conquered by Tamerlane, and in 1718 by the Chinese (Wright's Marco Polo). Khasa-The country of the Khasas was on the south of Kasmir, and extended from
"Kastvar in the south-east to the Vitastå in the west ", and it included the hill states of Rajapuri and Lobars. The Khasas are identical with the present Khakha (Dr. Stein's Rajatarangini, Vol. II; Ancient Geography of Kasmir, p. 430; and Märkandeya P.,
ch. 57). Khattana-PrapataThe celebrated water-fall of the river Sarasvati in Kanars near
Hunabar, not far from Mangalore. The sound of the fall is terrible. Khomavatinagara-The birth-place of the Buddha Krakuchchhanda or Krakuchandra
(Svayambha P., ch. 4). It was also called Khems (Dipavamia in JASB, 1838, p. 793). It has been identified with Gutiva, four miles to the south of Tilaura in the Nepalese Tarai (P. C. Mukherji's Antiqusties of Terai, Nepal, pp. 49; 08). According to Fa Hian, Krakuchandra's birth-place was Napeikea or Nabhiga.