Indian Antiquary Vol 52

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

Page 505

ORO
PAH
Orobatis of the Greeks)-Arbutt on the left bank of the Landai near Naoshera, west of
Pushkalâvati, through which Hephaistion advanced on his way to the Indus (McCrindle's
Invasion of India by Alexander, p. 72). Orukkallu-Warrangal, in the Central Provinces (Dr. Burnell's South Indian Paleography:
p. 54 note).
Padmagiri --Same as Ścâvana Belligola (S. K. Aiyangar's Ancient India, p. 209). Padmakshetra--Kanarak (Konarka), called also the black Pagoda or Chandrabhaga,
twenty-four milos north-west of Puri in Orissa. It contains a temple of the Sun (Surya), said to have been establisheci by Samba, a son of Krishna, who was cured here of leprosy by the god. Accorcling to an account, he was cured at Maltan (nee Malasthånapura). It appears, however, that this temple was built in 1277 A.D., under the superintendence of the minister Sivai Santra by Languliya Narasimha, the seventh king of the Gaugå. yamsi dynasty, who reigned from 1237 to 1282 A.D. (Hunter's Orissa). See Arka-kshetra and Konarka. For a descriptioa of the tom ple of Kanarak, see Major Kittoe's Journal of Tour in Orissa in JASB., 1838, p. 681. Padmapura-1. Same as Padmavati ; it is the birth-place of Bhavabhâti (Málati- Madhava,
Acts I, IV, IX). Padmapura is said to have been situated near Chandrapur at a short distance from Amaravati (Sarat Chandra Sastri's Bharata Bhramana, p. 244). 2. Pampur in Kasmir, on the right or north bank of the Jhelum, five or six miles to the southeast of Srinagar. It was built by Padma, the maternal uncle of Brihaspati, who reigned in Kasmir in the ninth century AD. It was celebrated for its cultivation of Kumkuma or saffron (Crocus sativus) which was largely used as a cosmetic by the ladies of ancient
India (Thornton's Gazetteer of Countries Adjacent to India). Padmavata-The country (janapada), the capital of which was Karavirapura : seo Padmavati. Padmavati-1. It has been identified by Cunningham with Narwar or Nalapura (Arch.
S. Rep., Vol. II, pp. 308-318; JASB., 1837, p. 17; Bhagavita P., Bk. XII, oh. 1) in Gwalior, on the rivor Sindh, 40 miles south-weat of Gwalior. But this identification appears to be doubtful. The town was situated at the confluonce of the rivers Sindhu (Sindh) and Para (P&zvati) in Vidarbha (Malabil aliuvu, Aci 1V), and therefore, it was perhaps thu inodorn Bijayanagara, which is de cuiTuption of Vidyanagara, 25 miles below Narwar (Thornton's Guz., .V. Sinde), Padmavati boing celebrated as a place of loaming, especially for its toaching in logie in the riglth century at thu time of Bhava lûti who was born at this pia - (Mahavirucharita, Act I: Laicu Kadhav, Act I); ancion Bidarbha (Berar) included the whole kingdom of Bhaps to the north of the Nerbuda (Cunningham's Bhilsa Tapos, p. 363). 2. Same as Karavirapura (HSriva wsa, Vishnu F., oh, 94), which has been identified with Kolhapur ; It was founded by Padmavarna. 3. It is another name for Ujjayini (Skanda P., Avant Kh., I, chs. 36, 44). It is supposed that the scene of the Malatt-Madhava is laid st Ujjayini (Wilson's Hindu Theatre, Vol. II). 4. The river Padin, a branch of the Ganges in East Bengal Brihat-Dharm P., Madhya Kh., ch. 22; Chaitanyu-Bhagavata, ch. 10; Devi Bhagavala, IX, Cho. 6, 7; Gladwin's Ayeen
Akbery, Pt. I, p. 301). Pahlava-Media (Mada), when it formed a part of the ancient Parthian kingdom (modern
Persia), was the "Pahlava country." The Avesta is written in the Pahlavi or Pehlvi character of the Parthian times (Prof. Noldeka in the Encyclopædia Britannica). The Pahlavas have been identified with the Parthians (Weber's History of Indian Literature, p. 188). It was celebrater for its horses (Mbh., Sabha, P., ch, 32). See Parada.