North Indian Inscriptions

PART A

be located somewhere in the direction of Aśmaka and Muḷaka, that is, in the Godāvarī valley.”

Moragiri (Sk. Mayūragiri) is represented in Sāñchī inscriptions by the village (gāma) Chuḍa-moragiri ^[1] and by Mahā-moragiri. ^[2] Hultzsch ^[3] contributed the following note : “With Mayūragiri compare Mayūraparvata, a locality which is referred to in a quotation of the Charaṇavyūhabhāshya; see Dr. Bühler’s translation of Āpastamba, p. XXXI note, and Dr. von Schroeder’s Maitrāyaṇī-Saṁhitā, p. XXIV”.

Venuvagāma (Sk. Veṇukagrāma), dwelling-place of the nun Dhamarakhitā, the “native of Kosambī” (A 52), is stated ^[4] to be a suburb of Kosambī and to have been identified by Cunningham with the modern village of Ben-Purwa to the north-east of Kosam. But the name seems more akin to Beluvagāma (also called Beluvagāmaka and Belugāma, a village near Vesāli (Vaiśāli), where the Buddha spent his last rainy season, according to the Mahāparinibbānasutta. ^[5] In the corresponding Sk. text (Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra § 13.2) the name of the village is Veṇugrāmaka. ^[6] The modern Belgaum in the Deccan also represents Veṇugrāma. ^[7]

Sirisapada. The location of the place is unknown, Hultzsch ^[8] refers to a village called Śirīshapadraka mentioned in two inscriptions of the Gurjara dynasty. ^[9]
(3) The list of place-names not identified as yet comprehends :
Kamuchu (?), Khujatiduka, ^[10] Chikulana (Chekulana), ^[11] Chudaṭhīla, Therākūṭa, Dabhina, Nagara, ^[12] Paḍela, ^[13] Parakaṭa, Parikina, Bahaḍa, Bibikanadikaṭa, ^[14] Selapura.

  [Epithets designating somebody with regard to his domicile are formed from place-names with the suffixes ¬–ika, -iya or –ka; see the treatment of important suffixes (under 6, a, 8, b, and 10, b) above pp. XXVIII f.]
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^[1] List No. 625, as read by Majumdar.
^[2] List Nos. 189, 313, as read by Majumdar.
^[3] IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 234, note 54.
^[4] BI. p. 127; Law, l.c.p. 35.
^[5] Malalasekera, l.c. Vol. II, p. 313.
^[6] Waldschmidt, Die Uberlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha I, Göttingen 1944, pp. 88 ff.
^[7] Cf. Nunda Lal Dey, l.c.p. 195, s.v. Sugandhavartī.
^[8] IA., Vol. XXI (1892), p. 237, note 66.
^[9] IA., Vol. XIII, pp. 82 and 88. Barua-Sinha’s (BI. p. 27) equation with Sirīsavatthu, a city of the Yakkhas in Ceylon (Malalasekera, l.c. Vol. II, p. 1149), does not need to be discussed.
^[10] BI. p. 128: “The Purāṇas mention Kubjaka and Kubjāmra among the holy places of India”.
^[11] Barua-Sinha (BI. p. 128), wrongly taking Chikula as name of the place, try to combine it with Chaul, near Bombay, by way of “Chikula, Chekula = Cheula”).
^[12] Occurring only in the derivation nagarika A 43 (A 44). Kirfel, l.c.p. 80, mentions Nāgaraka as designation of the residents of Pāṭaliputra according to Vātsyāyana’s Kāmasūtra with Yaśodhara’s commentary. Could nagarikā appear in the Bhārhut inscription as a short form for Naṁdinagarikā met with in A 45 and other early Brāhmī inscriptions?
^[13] Barua-Sinha, BI. p. 129 : “But Paḍela is evidently the ancient name of Paṇḍeria in Bilaspur District, Central Provinces”.
^[14] Barua-Sinha, BI. p. 129 : “This, as its name implies, was a place in the region of the Bimbika river”.