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Sindhu 3.248 (acak ve gea: #9:). The Also वलभिरम्भोरुविभ्रमभ्रमरः Book III. Va.
Saindhavas mentioned are the princes labhi was the capital of the Maitrakas of ruling over the Indus territory.
Surăstra (Kathiawar), and is now repreS'irīşagrāma, Book VII, section 26. Located sented by the ruins at Wala, about 20 miles in Avanti.
N. W. of Bhavnagar. Sopāra pura. See under Nābhigiri.
Vanavàsi 1.211 (aagiftratusufgru) and 1.
189. "Situated in the corner between the S'ricandra 3.249 (7459 rafa augsyany:
Ghāts, the Tungabhadrã and the Varadā." 51 Tartai, og at HHR...). The reference
Bühler's Introduction to Vikramārkadevais obscure. Comm. explains Sricandra as
carita. Comm. on 1. 211 says fittacartethe lord of the Kailāsa mountain.
Bazar, that is, the Vanavāsi area contS'rimāla 3. 247. Bhinmal in Jodhpur State.
ained Girisopā (modern Gersoppa in It is the Bhillamāla mentioned in the
North Kanara District, Bombay Province) Prasasti of the Jaina Prākrit romance
and other cities. It may be noted that Kuvalayamälä сomposed in the eighth
under 1. 211 comm. reads fafatar and century. Srimāla was the original home
not faltaria, as stated in a footnote on of the Jains now inhabiting Rajputana,
p. 181 of the printed edition. Vanavāsa Western India, the Punjab and the U.P.
is mentioned in the Mahāvansa XII. 31, See Jinavijayaji Muni in Bharatiya Vidya,
and, as pointed out by Geiger, there is a Vol. II, Parts I and II.
modern town Banavāsi in North Kanara. Sūrasena, Book IV ( Tafah). The Imp. Gaz. of India, s. V. See under Mathură country.
Kuntala, Surāstra, Book VI, section 12. Kathiawar. Vanga 3. 247 (F FTRFarafat:) and all
Cf. trety a f tfaatamist : Book 1. 1912: etc. Book III. Comm. says fifahitifefore. The first
Vangāla, Book III: qidq #3: etc., p. 131. name refers to Girnar Hill near Junagarh
Perhaps the earliest reference to the in Kathiawar.
country of Vangäla in classical Sanskrit Suvarnadvipa, Book VII, section 27. Sumatra,
literature. For other references see D. C. In the story in question the young merch- Ganguly: Vangāladeša in IHQ, December, ant Bhadramitra along with his compan- 1943. "In the eleventh century Dacca ions goes on a voyage to Suvarnadvipa,
District was in the country of Vangala.... and returns after acquiring choice and
In the fourteenth century Sonargaon is rare local products in exchange for a huge
definitely known to have been the capital quantity of merchandise (पुनरगण्यपण्यविनि
of Vangāla, which extended from Dacca to मयेन तत्रत्यमचिन्त्यमात्माभिमतवस्तुस्कन्धमादाय प्रत्या- Chittagong." Others think that the southdan ). See Chap. XVI of this book.
ern part of old Vanga came to be known Suvela, Book V. A mountain to the south of as Vangăla, and identify it with Candra
the Himālaya, "EHISTEROTR : : dvipa, i. e. parts of the Buckergunge सुवेलोऽस्ति लताविलोला।'
District and the adjoining region. See D. Svastimati, see under Dahālā.
Sarkar: The City of Bengals in Bharatiya Tāmalipti, Book VI, section 12. Described
Vidya, Vol. V, p. 36. Vangāla is mentioned
in the Tirumalai inscription (1024 A. D.) as being in Pūrvadesa and Gaudamandala. Modern Tamluk in Midnapore Distriot,
of Rajendra Cola, while the Ablur inscrip
tion of Kalacurya Vijjala (1157-67 A. D.) Bengal.
mentions Vanga and Vangäla separately. Ujjayini. Described with Avanti in Book II.
Ibid. Vangāla has also been identified Valabhī, Book VII, section 23. (atefuld re- with south-east Bengal including Chitta
मदमत्तमनीषिमत्तालिकुलकेलिकमलनाभ्यां वलभ्यां पुरि). । gong. IHQ, Vol. XXII, p. 280.
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