Epigraphia Indica Vol 26

SR No.: 032580
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. XXVI.
7. The names of several territorial divisions, rivers, towns and villages are mentioned in this inscription.
I. Territorial divisions :
(1) Attili-sima; (2) Visari-nadu. II. Rivers :
(1) The Gamgā, (2) the Gautami, (3) the Pimnasāni. III. Towns - (1) Attili, (2) Jaggavāga, (3) Kāmapurī, (4) Kāsi, (5) Mummadi-Prõlavāra, (6) Sagara,
(7) Sūravarapattana. IV. Villages :(1) Bharanipädu, (2) Chod-Annadēvavara, (3) Drāksbārāma, (4) Gulapūmdi, (5) Kārkara
parti, (6) Palluri-Sailavara, (7) Panchadhāra, (8) Pattesa, (9) Pedakonda. In addition to these, the name of a hill called the Gömukhagiri with a temple dedicated to Gõmukhagirīśvara, evidently named after the bill on which the shrine was built, is also mentioned.
Some of these towns and villages have been already identified in the course of the preceding discussion. The rest are taken up here for consideration.
Attili-sima was so called after Attili, which was evidently the headquarters of the district. Attili is at present situated in the south-west of the Tanuku taluk of the West Godavari District. It stands at the junction of two roads on a canal named after it. The boundaries of the Attilisima are not known; and it is not possible, in the absence of the necessary data, to demarcate even roughly the area included in the district.
The situation of Visari-nāņdu is not so easily ascertained. Visari-nāņdu figures in an epigraph belonging to the middle of the 13th century among the countries conquered by EruvaBhima, one of Annadēva's ancestors. As Annadēvavaram, the object of the present grant included in this district, is said to have been situated at the junction of the Pinnasāni and the Gamgā (another well-known name of the Godāvari), it is certain that Visați-nāņdu extended along the bank of the Gödāvari; and as no tributary of the Godavari is known at present by the name of the Pinnasāni, and as no village of Chôd-Annadēvavaram or Annadēvavaram can be located on the bank of the river, the position of Visari-nāņdu cannot be defined exactly at present.
Of the rivers mentioned in the plates, Gamgā, as explained already, is another name by which the Gödāvari is frequently referred to in inscriptions as well as in literature. The poet Srinātha who was a contemporary of Annadēva states that the river Gamgā flowed touching the western wall of the city of Rajahmundry. The Gautami is also another well-known name of the Gödāvari. As Pattesa, famous for its shrine of Virabhadra, is said to be on the bank of the river, it should be identified with the Akhanda-Gautami, i.e., the Gautami before it divides itself into the seven branches known collectively by the name of Sapta-Gödāvaram. The identity of the Pinnasāni, which must have been a small stream flowing into the Gödāvari, is, as stated already, not known.
8. Of the towns mentioned in the record, Attili, Kāmapuri, Sagara and Suravaram have been identified already. Nothing is known about Jaggaväga; Käsi is, of course, the famous city of Benares. The situation of Mummadi-Prolavāra of which a glowing account is given in the present inscription cannot be ascertained definitely. Mr. V. Apparao identifies it with Muramanda-Polavaram (probably the same as Murumanda in the Rajahmundry taluk of the East Godavari District):3
1 No. 308 of 1935-36 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection ; Bharati, Vol. XV, p. 158. ? Kāśikhandam, I : 58. ? J. A. H. R. S., Vol. I, p. 181.