Indian Antiquary Vol 31

SR No.: 032523
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1902.
"and then into Sa-un-dar." As regards the n in the last syllable of Sondarna,' which, as remarked by Mr. Bhandarkar, cannot be properly accounted for, - it is quite possible that it may be due to nothing but a mistake by the person who transliterated the vernacular name of the village for insertion in the English maps. But, in view of the fact that Vatapadraka can become Wardala' and Wardla,' we need not be surprised if Samfpadraka has actually become 'Sondarna.' It is to be added that Samipadraka- Sondarna' is, as required, in the courtry between the Mahi and the Narmada; it is about twenty miles from the south bank of the Mahi, and seven miles from the north bank of the Narbadâ.
In specifying the boundaries of Sambandhi in the Mankapika bhukti, the record places, on the east of Sambandhi, a village (grama) named Sajjodaka; on the south, (a small village or hamlet named) Brahma]napallika; on the west, (a place named) Karañjavasahika; and, on the north, (a village named) Kashthamandapa. Mr. Bhandarkar has said that. Sajjôḍaka is a village now called "Sajôd" in the Ankleshwar taluka of the Broach district, and has suggested that "the name Mândwa of a modern village may be the present contracted form of Kashthâmandapa." The village thus proposed for Sajjôdaka is the Sajod' of the Indian Atlas sheet No. 23, N. E. (1894), and of the Trigonometrical Survey sheet No. 13 (1873) of Gujarât, about five miles on the west of Ankleshwar. And the other village is the Mandwa Matierd' and Mándwa Mátierd' of the maps, three and a half miles west-by-north from Sajod: the prefix attached to its name is evidently used to distinguish it from another Matierd,' Máțierd,' about two miles on the west of Sajod; and it figures again in the name, given in the Trigonometrical map only, of Mándwa Bet,' a small island in the Narbadâ, just on the north of Mándwa Mátierd.' Now, the Sajod' of the maps very likely does represent an ancient Sajjôdaka. But there are no traces, in this locality, of any of the other names mentioned in the record. And, more to the point still, 'Sajod' is on the south of the Narbada, instead of being between that river and the Maht. I find that Mańkanika, the town from which the Mankanika bhukti took its appellation, is a large village, in the Sankhêda subdivision of the Baroda territory, which is shewn as 'Makni' in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 36, S. W. (1897), in lat. 22° 13', long. 73° 48', about a mile and a half on the south of the river Orsang,' and as Mákni' in the Bombay Survey sheet No. 184 (1886). And Sambandhi is the 'Samdhi' of the Atlas sheet and of the Bombay Survey sheet No. 188 (1894), also in the Sankhêdâ subdivision, two miles on the north of the Orsang,' and three and a half miles due north of Makni,' Mákni.' The maps, indeed, do not shew any names answering to the Karañjavasahika and the Sajjodaka of the record.27 But the Survey sheet No. 183 shews, on the north bank of the Orsang,' about one mile and three quarters south-east-by-south from Samdhi,' a small village named 'Bamroli' which very probably is the Brahma]papallika of the record. And Kasthamandapa is, unquestionably, the Kath Mandva' of the Atlas sheet, and the 'Kath Mándva' of the Survey sheet No, 188, about one mile towards the north-by-west from 'Samdhi,' and in, apparently, the Kâlôl taluka of the PañchMahâls. Sambandhi-'Samdhi' is about thirty-six miles towards the north-east-by-east from Samfpadraka 'Sondarna.' And it, also, is in the country between the Mahi and the Narmada; it is about twenty-two miles from the north bank of the latter river, at its nearest point, and some forty miles to the south-east of the Mahi.
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As regards Badavi, which is mentioned as the place of residence of the grantee's father, there are the unquestionable facts, established by me a long time ago, that Badavi occurs, as far back as A. D. 699, as an earlier form of the name of Badami, the head-quarters of the Bâdâmi taluka of the Bijapur district and in former times the capital of the Western Chalukya kings, and that this town
24 See page 256 above, and note 14.
37 The latter name, however, survives in that part of the country, in the case of the 'Sajod' of the maps, on the south bank of the 'Sukhi' river, fourteen and a half miles north-east-by-east from 'Samdhi."
See Vol, V. above, p. 68, Vol. VI. pp. 72, 74, Vol. VIII. pp. 238, 239, and Vol. X. p. 60. The instances in Vol. V. p. 20 and Vol. X. p. 63, referred to by Mr. Bhandarkar for Badari as an older form of the name of Badami, are only of A. D. 1532 and 1840 or thereabouts.