Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
[Ch. IX the Acaranga Sutra1 and Suhma of the Buddhist and Brāhmaṇical3 works. Śri Nilakantha Sastri equates Suhma with Radha in his commentary on the Mahabharata.
Thus it appears that the centre of Sumbhuttara (Suhma) corresponds to Triveni-Saptagrama-Paṇḍua area in the Hooghly district (West Bengal), as it is supported by the existence of the famous shrine of Murārī, of Raghu-Kulaguru (the Sun) and Arddhanarisvara (conjoint form of Siva and his consort Parvati) as recorded in the Pavanaduta of Dhoyi. Its boundaries also extended upto Tamralipta (Tamaluk) at one time and it formed the part of greater Radha.
Sindhu-Sauvīra
Sindhu-Sauvīra was one of the sixteen small states with its capital at Vitibhaya ruled over by king Udayana who was matrimonially related to the president-king, Cetaka of Vaišālī.
It appears that Sindhu-Sauvira formed one united kingdom, but Sovira or Sauvira is mentioned as a separate territorial unit in the early Buddhist works', Aṣṭādhyāyz and Patanjali Mahabhāṣya.
These two lands figure conjointly in the epics' and Purānas11 and also in the Junagadha Rock Inscription of Rudradamana." The unification of two territorial units suggests that the two peoples were considered as one and the same.
1 Acaranga Sutra (S B.E. Vol. XXII, pp. 84-5), Pannavanā, 1.17 Talapatta Jataka, No. 96, Vol. 1. p. 393.
3 Mahabharata, Ch. 30,16 (Sabha P.); Raghuvamsa 49-35, 49, 38; Raghu-IV. 3, 5, 6.; Dasa-Kumara Carita 6th Ucchvāsa p. 102; Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara, Ch. 17; Harsacarita, 6th Ucchväsa; Pavanaduta of Dhoy i-V. 27.
Nilkantha's commentary on the Sabhaparvan of the Mahabharata Suhmaḥ-Radhaḥ'
5 Pavanduta of Dhoy1, V. 27.
7 Mahagovinda Suttanta (Digha
8 Astadhyayi (4. 2. 76; 4.1.143.)
Mahabhasya, 4. 2. 76.
10 Mbh. (Bhisma-Parva) 5, 1, 14. Ch. 18. 13. 14. Adiparva 4. 139. 21-3.
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BhS, 13, 6, 491. Panna. 1, 37. N. II p. 235).
11 Mark. P. Ch. 57, 36; 58, 30; Visnu P. Book II, Ch. III. 1 J.R.I. of Rudradamana-150 p. 7.