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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR Of the geographical names occurring in the present grant, Karṇāṭa Vaṅga, Gurjara and Kōṅkaṇa are too well-known to need identification. Śākaṁbharī, the capital of the Chāhamānas, was the name of the city near the Sāmbhar lake. Tripurī and Ratnapura have already been identified. Tummāṇa, which was the first capital of the Kalachuris in Chhattisgarh, has been satisfactorily identified with Tumān, 45 m. north of Ratanpur.¹ The present grant shows that Tummāṇa continued to receive royal attention even after the capital was shifted to Ratanpur. Kōmō-maṇḍala appears to be the ancient name of the country surrounding the village Kōmō in the Pēṇḍrā Zamindarī, 25 miles north by west of Ratanpur. Vasahā, the donated village, is clearly Basahā, about 12 miles north by east from Bilaspur. The name of the maṇḍala, in which it was situated, cannot be read with certainty. Rai Bahadur Hiralal read it is Yayapara-,maṇḍala and identified it with the territory round Jaijaipur, in the Jānjgir tahsil, 10 miles from Amōdā. It is however, not unlikely that the intended reading was Apara-maṇḍala² or the Western Division which may have included the territory round Basahā. Hastiyāmaṭhī, from which the donee had emigrated, is probably identical with Hāthmuḍī in the Mungeli tahsil of the Bilaspur District, about 45 miles west of Bilaspur.
1Ind. Ant., Vol. LIII, pp. 267 ff.
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