Indian Antiquary Vol 52

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

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Narmada-Sindhu Sanga28-The function of the Nerbuda with the ocean: it is celebrated
as Jamadagni Tirtha (Matsya P., ch. 193). Nasikya-Same as Panehavati (Vayu P., Purva, oh. 48); Nasik. The name of Nasika is
mentioned by Ptolemy. . Nåţake-Same as Låta (Mbh., Sabha, ch. 30). Natika--A suburb of Vaisali (Besar), where the Jhátrika Kshatriyas resided to this clan
belonged Mahavira, the lasi Tirthankara of the Jainas (Jacobi's Jaina-skiras, Intro., in
SBE, XXII, p. xi). Navadovakula --Newal, thirty-three miles south-west of Unao near Bangarmau in Oudh and nineteen miles south-east of Kanauj, visited by Hiuen Triang (Fahrer's NAI). It
is the same as Alavt (see Alavi). NavadvipA-Nadia, the birth place of Ohaitanya, the last incarnation of Vishnu according
to the Vaishnavas. The Navadvips of Chaitanya was situated opposite to the present Navadvips across the river Ganges, the present Navadvipa is situated on the site of the ancient village of Kulia in the distriot of Nadia in Bengal. For the names of the original nine doipas or islets which formed the present Navad ripa (see the Vaishnava poet Narahari Das's Navadu pa Parikramd). Chaitanya was born in Saka 1107 corresponding to 1488 A.D., and he disappeared at Puri in Saka 1436 corresponding to 1533 A.D. See Uttala. Chaitanya was the son of a Vaidika Brahmana; at the age of 24, he was persuaded by Advaita to become a mendicant, to forsake his wife, and go to Benares; he taught his followers to think upon Hari and all out his name, to renounce a secular wife, to eat with all those who are Vaishnavas, and allow widows to marry. The Gossains are his successors. The era of Chaitanya marked the commencement of the Bengali literature. Navadvipa was the last Hindu capital of Bengal. Lakshmaniya or Asoka Sena, the grandson of Lakshmana Sena and great-grandson of Vallala Sena, held his court at this place, whence he was driven by Bakhtiyar Khilji who made Gaud onoe more the
capital of Bengal. For the Navadvipe university, see Mithila. Nava-Gándhara-Kandahar, where the begging-pot of Buddha (the four bowls given him
by the four guardian-deities after he had attained Buddhahood, and which he caused to appear as a single bowl) was removed from Kanishka's dagoba at Peshawar, the true Gandhåra. The alms-bowl was given by Buddha to the Lichchhavis and was kept at Vaicall, whence it was carried off by Kanishka in the second century A.D.; and when Gåndhara was conquered by Kitolo, it was removed to Kandahar by the Gândhâris who emigrated there in the fifth century (Arch. 8. Rep., Vol. XVI, pp. 8-12 ; Legge's Fa Hian,
ch. XI, note, p. 35; Rawlinson's Herodotus, Vol. I, p. 675 note). Nava-Rashtra-Neugari--the Noagramma of Ptolemy-ia the Baroach district, Bombay
(Mbh., Sabha, ch. 31). Nava-Tripadt-Naya-Tirupadi, twenty miles to the east of Tiranalavelli (Tinnivelli) visited
by Chaitanya (Archavatdra-sthala-vaibhava-darpanam, p. 64). Neleynda-Kottayam in Travancore (Periplus, Sehoff's trans., p. 208, and his Two South
Indian Place-names in the Periplus). It is the Nelkynda of Ptolemy (MoCrindle's Polemy, Bk. VII, oh. 1, sec. 9 in Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII (1884), p. 329). It is generally supposed to be Nilesvarem on the Malabar Coast (Yule's Marco Polo, Vol. II, p. 321). Neleynda or Nelkyndn is perhaps the Nalakalika of the Brakmanda P., ch. 49, and Nalakanana of the Kbh. (Bhishma, ch. 9).