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in Seuņapura is said to have been situated) with modern Sinnar, about twenty miles south of Nasik. D. C: Ganguly says that Seuņadeśa' was situated on the confines of Daņdaka, and included Devagiri, modern Daulatābād, in the Aurangābād District."But according to Svayambhū the river Bhīmarathi i. e. Bhimā was like a stream of nectar to the Seunadeśa'. This means that the Seunadeśa should have been on the Bhimā river i. e. further south than has been so for understood.
Does Svayambhū’s going out of the way in specially describing the river Bhīmarathi as 'a stream of nectar to the Seunadeśa' imply anything—say, for example, a close association of Svayambhū with the Seuņadesa or Seuņapura ? This is more than we can say. True, the Seuņas were vassals of the Rāştrakūtas of Mānyakheta and of the Cālukyas of Kalyāņa for more than three hundred years, 19 and some of the Rāştrakūta kings are known to have given patronage to Jainism. The great Apabhramśa poet Puşpadanta (mid-tenth century) had a Rāştrakūța minister for his patron. Even one of the Seuņa kings himself, viz., Seuņacandra III, was sympathetic towards Jainism, as is shown by his donation, in A. D. 1141, of three shops for maintaining the temple of Tirthamkara Candraprabha at Anjanerī, near Nasik. These facts may not be quite without significance. But in the absence of any more substantial data it would be unsafe to speculate any further in this matter.
Part II of PC. has two passages, significant on account of their reference to various contemporary geographical place names. The first passage (Sandhi 45, Kadavaka 4) describes the famous products of various places that were available as commodities in the market of Lakşmīnagara or Srīnagara, the capital of the Vidyādhara king Hanumat in the Hanuruha Dvīpa. The plac's and products are tabulated below:
11 The Struggle for Empire', 185. 12 The Struggle for Empire', 185.
13 See the stone inscription from the Jain temple edited by Bhagvanlal Indraji at I A., 12, 1883, pp. 126-129.
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