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ANCIENT TOWNS AND CITIES IN GUJARAT AND KATHIAWAD
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81. Bahadapura. Udayana, the famous minister of Kumâra pâia, had two sons, Bahada and Ambaka. The father, being mortally wounded in battle, entrusted to his sons the task of carrying out his wish of repairing and constructing temples at several places in Gujarat. At the time of building, as the father had wished, the Neminátha temple at Satruñjaya, the brothers also founded a town in the vicinity, named Bahadapur, after the eldor one. No extant village in the surrounding region can be identified with the place. Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji thinks that its site may be close to the ruins east of Paltana, where large quantities of conch shells and bangles are still to be found 129.
82. Bahuloda. Jayakesin, king of Karnataka, had a daughter nained Miyaņalladevi. She longed, -90 goes the story,--for the hand of the Solanki king Karna [1064—1094), although he was very old, because she hoped successfully to use her queenly influence for abolishing the pilgrim tax levied at Bahuloda on pilgrims to Prabhasa. Forbes suggests 130 that this Bahuloda must be the same as Bhaloda, a ford on the Narmadå river near its mouth, a little above Suklatirtha. This suggestion cannot be accepted; for in the time of Karna I, the Anahilapattana kingdom did not extend much to the south of Ahmadabad, it was king Karna himself who was first to capture Asapalli or Ahmadabad, and Suklatirtha and BhAloda are more than 100 miles to the south of that city. Besides, as the pilgrim tax was on the pilgrims going from Anahilapattana and northern Gujarat to PrabhAsa, it is clear that this Bahuloda must have been somewhere on the boundary between Northern Gujarat and Kathiawad; for pilgrims from Anahilapattana could hardly be expectel to pass through Bhaloda near Suklatirtha on their way to Prabhasa. And yet we are told that when, after her marriage, Miyaņalladevi proceeded from Anahilapattana to Prabhasa, she had to pass through Bahuloda 131
This Bahuloda is most probably the village Bholads, about 20 miles south-west of Dholka For it is on the boundary line above referred to; besides, it presents no philological difficul, ties in identification.
This village Bholada must have been an important town during the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries; for the annual pilgrim tax received there amounted to 72 lakhs131. The amount of the tax inay be an exaggeration ; but it is a good indication of the traffic of the place.
88. Bharukachchha, Bharoohor Bhroach is a town of hoary antiquity; it was known as Bhrgupura, Burgukachoh ba and Bhrgukshestra in ancient times; the port of Barugaza, 139 Barygaza 138 or Bargosa 184 of the Greek writers refers to the same place.
The importance of Bhrgupura in ancient times was due to two causes; firstly, to its being a holy place, and secondly, to its being the port of export and import of the whole of northern India. Its sanotity as a 'tirtha' is recognised in the Puranas ; 136 and no wonder; for here king Bali is said to have performed the famous sacrifice, in which he gave away his whola bmpire 149 BG., I. 1. p. 188. 130 Ras Mala, p. 84.
191 Pbc., p. 84. 133 Periplus.
133 In Ptolemy. 184 In the famous epitaph on the tomb of the Indian philosopher at Athens. Of Zarmanochegae, an Indian, a native of Bargose who immortalised himself according to the custom of his country' ---Strabo, III, 119. 186 E.g., Karma Purana, II, ch. 41. The quaran ta: STATT
