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Banti-Sânchi, about six miles to the south-west of Bhilsa and twenty miles north-east
of Bhupal (Cunningham's Bhilsa Topes, p. 181). It is celebrated for ancient Buddhist topes, constructed according to different authorities in the 5th, 3rd, or 1st century B.C. The great tope was built about 188 B.c, by a king of the Sunga dynasty (Sir Monier Williams' Modern India, p. 130). One of the topes contained the ashes of Sariputra and Moggallana, two of the principal disciples of Buddha (see Nalanda and Sravastl). The rail. ing was constructed in 200 B.O., and the gate in the 1st century A.D. Dr. Fleet, however, considers that the ancient name of Sanchi is Kåkanada (Corp. Ins. Ind., Vol. III, p. 31). For a description of the Sanchi topes, see Cunningham's Bhilsa Topes, p. 183. See
Kakanada. Sapadalaksha-1. Same as sakambhari, modern Sambhar in Eastern Rajputana (Tawney:
Prabandhachintamani, p. 120; Ep. Ind., II, p. 422). 2. There is also a temple of SAkam bhari in Kumaun. Sapadalaksha is the Sanskrit form of the modern Sewalik. (Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, Pt. I, p. 157). The corruption of Sapadalaksha appears to be Sawalakh
(Upham's Rajavali, p. 50), and Sewalikh is the corruption of Sawalakh. Sappint-See Giriyek (SBE., XIII, p. 254 n.; Gooneratne's Argutlara Nikaya, p. 210). Sapta-dvipa-The seven dvipas or insular continents mentioned in the Puranas are
Jambu, Plaksha, Salmali, Kuga, Krauñcha, Saka and Pushkara (Padma P., Kriyâyogasøra, ch. I). Sapta-Gandakl-The seven rivers which unite and form the river Gandak are the Barigar,
the Salagrâmî or the Narayani, the Sveti-Gandaki, the Marsiangdi, the Daramdi, the
Gandi and the Trisula (JASB., XVIII, p. 762 map). Sapta-Gaiga-Gangá, Godåvari, Kaveri, Tampraparni, Sindhu, Sarayu and Narmada
are called Sapta-Ganga (Siva P., Bk. 2, ch 13). Sapts-Godavari-A place of pilgrimage mentioned in the Puranas situated at Solangipur,
sixteen miles from Pithapura (Pishtapura of Samudra Gupta's inscription), one of the stations of the East Coast Railway, not far from Rajamahendri in the Godavari district
Mbl... Vana P..ch. 85; Padma P., Svarga, ch. 19). According to some writers the seven months of the Godavari were called by this name (Rajatarangins, Bk, viii, s. 34449: Dr.
Stein's trans., vol. ii, p. 271 note). Baptagrama-Satgaon, an ancient town of Bengal near Magra in the district of Hughly ;
it is now an insignificant village consisting of a few huts. It was a great emporium of commerce and the capital and port of Radha at the time of the Romans, who knew it by the name of Ganges Regia. It was also the capital of Western Bengal at the time of the Mahomedans (Lane Poole's Mediæval India under Mahomedan Rule, p. 164). It was situated on the Ganges. The recession of the Ganges in 1630 A.D. and the rise of Hughly into a royal port caused its ruin (sue my Notes on the History of the District of Hughly or the Ancient Radha in JASB., 1910). Formerly Saptagrama implied seven villages Bansberia, Kristapura, Basudevapura, Nityanandapura, Sibpur, Sambachora and Baladghati. For the life of Zaffer Khan, the conqueror of Saptagrama, see JASB., XV (1847), p. 393. Ptolemy 88 ye that Gange was the capital of the Gangaridai. The Ganga-ridai were evidently the Gang-Radhis or the inhabitants of Radha, who lived on the west bank of the Ganges, the eastern boundary of Radha being the Ganges and hence Gange is evidently Saptagrama; it is the “Port of Ganges" of the Periplus of the Erythræan Sea, the sea being then closer to Saptagrama than it is at present : hence Saptagráma was the capital of Radha in the Ist or 2nd century of the Christian era (see JASB., for 1810). Saptagrama was visited
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