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Mere repetition of eka-deśa would not be adequate justification for imagining a gap in the sīkā phrase or for emending it. If Tri-kūţa refers to a mountain, it is not at all improbable that it would refer also to the region around that mountain." In fact, as Mirashi (1955:xli-xliv) notes, a name like Pūrva-tri-kūţa-vişaya 'East Tri-kūța district is found in the Anjaneri plates of Bhoga-śakti, and Tri-kūta is mentioned in a list of countries in the Ajanta inscrip- . tion concerning Harisena (475-510 A.D.). A dynasty of Traikūtakas, who most probably derived their name from association with the Tri-kūta region, 33 is also clearly attested in historical records (Mirashi 1955:xli-xliv; Mulay 1972:16, 29; Gupta 1973:246). True, Mirashi observes that “The Traikūtaka kingdom at its largest extent seems to have extended from the Kīm in the north to the Krishṇā in the south, and to have comprised South Gujarat, North Konkan, and the Nasik, Poona and Satara Districts of Maharashtra," and thus it is not certain that the Traikūţaka country included Tilinga. However, as the word "seems" in Mirashi's statement indicates, one cannot rule out the possibility that, the borders of the Traikūțaka country could have at times been different.84 Evidence available for determining boundaries of political units in as early a period as the second to the sixth centuries A.D. rarely allows one to draw precise and final conclusions. As the Traikūțakas emerged after the decline of the Sātavāhana empire, which included Tilinga, it is not unlikely that Tri-kūța, as the region of the Traikūţakas, included or was thought to include Tilinga. Such a situation is especially likely to have prevailed in
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