Interpreting Vakyapadiya 2486 Historically

Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar

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(according to H.H. Wilson, The Vishnu Puráha, vol. v, 1870, p.118 fn *). Fleet, Epigraphia Indica, vol. V, (1898-9) no. 25 p. 241, informs that a text called Channabasavapurana speaks of a miracle (absorption of a Prabhu into Siva) that reportedly took place at SriSaila.
10. Although Sanskrit authors as well as modern scholars have frequently identified Sri-parvata with Sri-saila in Kurnool district, it seems more Justifiable to hold that the primary association of the name Sri-parvata was with the Nalamalai or Nagarjunakonda area in Guntur/ Guntoor district (see Part 3). Several inscriptions have been discovered in that area.
11. See Raja-tarangini 4.503-10. As indirect evidence, see Valmiki-rāmāyaṇa 7.7.21.
12. It is evident from the following statements that the term brahma-rakṣas or brahma-rākṣasa refers to those who bring harm to the brahmin way of life despite their association with brahminhood: Mahabharata 2.11.68, 9.42.17. 13.92.12, 13.112.40-42, 13.133.61; Manu-smrti 12.60; Yajnavalkya-smrti 3.212; Agni-purana 371.35.
13. Ravana was the name of a king of Kashmir according to Kalhana 1.193-5.
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