Indian Antiquary Vol 13

SR No.: 032505
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 492
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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DECEMBER, 1884.]
PTOLEMY'S GEOG. BK. VII, CH. 1, $$ 72-76.
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The names of the three towns assigned to by reading Oöloubana or Voloubana. The second the Porvaroi.-Bridama, Tholoubana and must be Bilhari ; and the last may be Lameta, Malaita designate obscure localities, and their which gives its name to the Ghât on the Narmada, position can but be conjectured. Saint-Martin opposite Têwar, and may thus stand for Tripura suggests that the first may be Dildana, the second itself. All these identifications hold so well toDoblana, and the third Plaita, all being places ingether, and mutually support each other, that I Rajputana. Yule, however, for Bridama proposes have little doubt of their correctness." Archæolog. BardAwad, a place in a straight line from Indôr Surv. of Ind. vol. IX, pp. 55-57. to Nimach, and for Malaita,-Maltaun; this Panassa:- This in Yule's map is doubtfully place is in the British territory of Sagår and placed at Panna, a decaying town in Bandelakhand Narmada, on the south declivity of the Naral Pass. with diamond mines in the neighbourhood. In
Adeis a throi:-It has already been pointed the same map Baland is suggested as the re. out that as Ptolemy has assigned the sources of presentative of Balantipyrgon. the Khabêris (the Kávêri) to his Mount Adeisa- 72. Farther east than the Adeisathroi thros, we must identify that range with the section
towards the Ganges are the Mandala i with of the Western Ghats which extends immediately
this city :northward from the Koimbator Gap. He places
Asthagoura
...142° 25° Adeissthros however in the central parts of India, and here aceordingly we must look for the cities 73. And on the river itself these towns :of the eponymous people. Five are mentioned, Sambalaka........... ..........141° 29° 30' but Sageda only, which was the metropolis, Sigalla .......................... 142° 28° can be identified with some certainty. The name Palimbothra, the Royal resirepresents the Sakêta of Sanskrit. Sakêta was
dence ...........................143° 27° another name for Ayodhys on the Saraya, a
Tamalités ........................144° 30' 26° 30' city of vast extent and famous as the capital of
Oreophanta ........... ......... 146° 3024° 30' the kings of the Solar race and as the residence for some years of Sakyamuni, the founder of
74. In like manner the parts under Mount Buddhism. The Sageda of our text was however Böttigð are occupied by the Brakhmanai a different city, identified by Dr. F. Hall with Magoi as far as the Batai with this city :Têwar, near Jabalpur, the capital of the Chedi, Brakhmô............... ...........128° 19° a people of Bandêlakhand renowned in Epic
75. The parts under the range of Adeisapoetry. Cunningham thinks it highly probable
thros as far as the Arouraioi aro occupied by that the old form of the name of this people was
the Badia maioi with this city :Changedi and may be preserved in the Sageda of Ptolemy and in the Chi-ki-tho of Hiuen Tsiang in
Tathilba ..........................134° 18° 50' Central India, near the Narmad. He says: 76. The parts under the Ouxentos range “The identification which I have proposed are occupied by the Drilophyllita i, with of Ptolemy's Sagêda Metropolis with Chêdi
these cities :appears to me to be almost certain. In the
Sibrion ...........
.........139° 22° 20' first place, Sagêda is the capital of the Adeisa
Opotoura ........................ 137° 30 21° 40' throi which I take to be a Greek rendering
Ozoana
.........138° 15' 20° 30 of Hayakshetra or the country of the Hayas or Haihayas. It adjoins the country of the Bettigoi,
Mandalai:-The territory of the Mandalai whom I would identify with the people of Vaka
lay in that upland region where the Sôn and taka, whose capital was Bhåndak. One of the
the Narmada have their sources. Here a town towns in their country, situated near the upper
situated on the latter river still bears the name course of the Sôn, is named Balantipyrgon, or
Mandala. It is about 50 miles distant from Balampyrgon. This I take to be the famous Fort Jabalpar to the south-east, and is of some historic of Bandogash, which we know formed part of the
pote. Ptolemy has, however, assigned to the Chedi dominions. To the north-east was Panassa,
Mandalai dominions far beyond their proper which most probably preserves the name of some
limits, for to judge from the towns which town on the Parn så or Bangs River, a tributary he gives them they must have occupied all the .which joins the Sôn to the north-east of Bando- right bank of the Ganges from its confluence garh. To the north of the Adeisathroi, Ptolemy with the Jamna downwards to the Bay of Bengal. places the Pôrouaroi or Parihêrs, in their towns But that this is improbable may be inferred from named Tholoubana, Bridama, and Malaita. The the fact that Palimbothra (PANA) which the first I would identify with Boriban (Bahuriband) table makes to be one of their cities, did not