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202 Dr. SUDARSHAN KUMAR SHARMA
SAMBODHI to by Bāna-because the famous batte described in the Candi between Kāli and the two kings Sumbha and Niś-umbha is said to have been faught in this place. Mārkandeya Purana (chapter 85 Verses 41, 42, 43, 54) refers to the scene of battle as Himacala.56 Vāmana Purana (chapter 55) places it in Vindhyācala. The name of Canda pura according to Nando Lal Dey57 is derived from the name of one of the two brothers Canda and Munda who were the generals of the two kings.
The Caumukhi Mahadeva and Durga in a temple at Mundeśvari are sai have been established by the other brother Munda. Mundeśvari is seven miles South west of Bhabua. The temple according to Dr. Bloch is very old, the carising being of the Gupta style. (Bloch's archaeological Report (1902). The temple bears a date which is equivalent. to A. D. 635. Vāmana Purāna takes the two as generals of Mahişāsura who were killed by the goddess Bindubhāsiņī on the Vindhya mountain.
"Candamundi mahāsthāne dandini Parameśvari"58 in the postscript of Sākta pāthas of Dr. D. C. Sircar quoting Devi Bhāgavata VII. 385.30 L.27 refers to Candi at Mahāsthāna, identified as modern area in the Bogra district of north Bengal by Dr. D. C. Sircar himselfs being earlier Pundravardhana, now in East Pakistan (Bangladesh since 1971). D. C. Sircar also identifies Anga as comprising the present Bhāgalapura-Manghyr region of East Bihar having head quarters at Campā Bhāgalpura. Karūsa he identifies with Shāhbad region of South West Bihar6o while commenting as the topic “The Eight elephant forests” and refers to
“Kalingānga rajāḥśresthāḥ prācyaś-Cedi Karūsajāḥ"61 R. P. Kangle61 corrects it to "Kalingā-riga gajāḥ śresthāh. in his note to English translation.
I. Ganapati śāstrī's ed. p. 117 has the reading Kalingānga gajāḥs śresthāḥ62. Kalingānga deśod-bhavās gajāḥ.
This makes us take a point in view that Candamundi could be the original name of Cāmundi taken as such by Bana or may be a scribal error like so many visible in Sanskrit manuscripts.
Sandhyākaranandī in his Rāma Carita63 the Dvayāśraya Kavya bearing the descriptions of Sitā and Varendri refers to Anga as bowing law before Vārindri.
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