Indian Antiquary Vol 52

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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Malada-A portion of the district of Shahabad (Ramdyana, Bala, oh. 24). It was on the
site of the ancient Malada and Karusha that Visvamitra's Asrama was situated; Vibvamitra-asrama has been identified with Buxar. It is mentioned among the eastern coun
tries conquered by Bhima (Mbh., Sabha, ch. 29). Malakúta-The Chola kingdom of Tanjore; it is mentioned by Hiuen Tsiang and also in the
Tanjore inscription (Dr. Burnell's South Indian Palaeography, p. 47, note 4; Sewell's
Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India, p. 14).. Málava-1. Malwa (Brahmanda P., Porva, ch. 48); its capital was Dhård-nagara at the
time of Raja Bhoja. Its former capital was Avanti or Ujjayini (Brahma. P., ch. 43). Before the seventh or eighth century, the country was called Avantî (see Avanti). Hala yudha flourished in the court of Muñja (974 to 1010 A.D.); Bågbhata, the author of the celebrated medical treatise called after his name, flourished in the court of Raja Bhoja (Tawney's Prabandhachintamani, p. 198), and Mayura, the father-in-law of Bånabhatta, flourished in the court of the elder Bhoja (Ind. Ant., I, pp. 113, 114). For the origin of the name (Bee Skanda P., Maheśvara, Kedara Kh., ch. 17). 2. The country of the Malavas or Mallas (the Mallis of Alexander's historians) the capital of which was Multan (Mbh., Sabha P., ch. 32; MoCrindle's Invasion of India by Alexander, p. 352; Cunningham's Arch. 8. Rep., V, p. 129; Brihat-samhita, ch. 14). The "MAlayaraja " mentioned in the Harshacharita (ch. 4) was perhaps king of the Mallas of Multan (see Ep. Ind., vol. I, p. 70).
See Malla-dea. Malaya-Girl-The southern parts of the Western Ghats, south of the river Kaveri (Bhava
bhati's Mahdutra-charfta, Act V, v. 3), called the Travancore Hills, including the Cardamum Mountains, extending from Koimbatur gap to Cape Comorin. One of the summits bearing the name of Pothigei, the Bettigo of Ptolemy, was the abode of Rishi Agastya (MoCrindle's Ptolemy, VII, ch, 1, seo. 66 in Ind. Ant., XIII, p. 361 ; Chaitanya-charitamita, Madhya, ch. 9); it is also called Agasti-kata mountain or Potiyam, being the
southernmost peak of the Anamalai mountains where the river Tamraparni has its source. Malaya-Khapdam-See Mallara. Malayalam-Malabar (Rajavart, Pt. I). The Malayalam country included also Cochin and
Travancore, and it was anciently oalled Chers afterwards Kerala (see Chera and Kerala). According to some authorities, it was the ancient name of Travancore (Schoff, Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, p. 234; Da Cunha's Hist. of Chaul and Bassein; Caldwell's Drat. Comp. Gram., 3rd ed., p. 16). The entire Malayalam country originally comprised Tuluya, Mushika, Kerala and Kuva. For the history of Malayalam, see Mackenzie Manuscripts
in JASB., 1838, p. 132. Malin-1. Champanagar near Bhagalpur (Hemakosha ; Matsya P., ch. 48). 2. The river
Mandakinf. 3. The river Malint flows between the countries called Pralamba on the west and Apartala on the east, and falls into the river Ghagra about fifty miles above Ayodhya. It is the Erineses of Megasthenes. The hermitage of Kanva, the adoptive father of the celebrated Sakuntala, was situated on the bank of this river (Kalidasa's Sakuntala, Acts III, VI). Lassen says that its present name is Chuka, the western tributary of the Saraju (Ind. Alt., II, p. 524; Ramayana, Ayodhya K., ch. 18). See Kanva-asrama. Malla-Desa-1. The district of Multan was the ancient Malla-desa or Malava (9.v.), the
people of which were called Mallis by Alexander's historians and are the Malavas of the Mahabharata (Mbh., Sabha P., oh. 32). Its ancient capital was Multan (Cunningham's