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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMANJARĪ
Śatakarnika, in the west to the Brāhmaṇa district of Thūņa (identified with Sthāṇviśvara)' Hence Madhyadeśa had its boundaries in Northern India as well. The identification of Śarāvatī with river Salalāvatī is not an impossibility. The durgagiri Mandaraka having a town over its upper regions surrounded by a circular vellum, having its grottoes abounding in wild tuskers, being in itself a resort for the enemy kings imprisoned there in creates an impression on the mind to identify it with Śrīdurjaya, a fortification built by Ratnapala (1000-1030) a contemporary of Bhoja of Dhārā whose court poet Dhanapala was and a king of Kamarupa (Prāgjyotiṣ a) who was succeeded by Indrapāla, the grandson (1030-1055), another contemporary of Bhoja, whose son Purandarpāla had died a crown prince. Srīdurjaya is known from the anonymous inscriptions of these kings. The capital was on the south bank of Brahamputra where as the grants were made to the Brāhmaṇas on the Uttarakūla or the northern bank. The fortified city was between modern Tezpur and Gauhati.2 But the Mandraka durgagiri being a resort of the imprisoned kings precludes the possibility of this identification to some extents. It might have been a hill fortification built by Meghavahana to keep the imprisoned kings there in.3 Lauhitya has been eminently referred to by Dhanapāla. Having reached the country known as Kāmarupa, greeted there by the king of Prayagjyotiṣa Harivahana was offered homage to by the vassals of Uttarapatha entreated by whom he had roved about the groves on the shores of Lauhitya. According to B. C. Law
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"The Great tributary, which meets the Brahmaputra in the district of Sadiya, is the Lohit or Lauhitya. It flows from north east above the Namkiu mountains as the united flow of four streams. This river formed the boundary of Pragjyotiṣa or Gauhāṭī in Assam." According to Dr. B. S. Upadhyaya "Lauhitya is Brahmaputra which according to Kālidāsa forms the western boundary of old Pragjyotiṣa " (Śrīdurjayā or modern Gauhāṭī).”
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1. HGAI p. 14 (B. C. Law)
2. Early History of Kamarupa pp. 87-90 Rai K. L. Barua.
3. TM Sm. Ed. p. 349. कामरूपाख्यमण्डलख्यातनामानमाश्रित्य लौहित्यनदम् ।
Sm. cd. p. 357. लोहित्यमृगयावने। Sm. ed. p. 384. लोहित्यतटबन्धोजयस्कन्धावारस्य । Smed. p. 394. लौहित्यतटवासिनः स्कन्धावारात | Sm. ed. p. 392. लौहित्यतटपर्वताटव्या: । also Sm. ed. p.
374.
4. लोहित्योपकण्ठकाननेषु विचार - TM Vol. III. p. 35.
5. HGAI p. 275. Also pp. 37-38. The Brahmaputra Meghna System.
6. Kālidāsa Ka Bhārata Part I p. 44.
