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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA some Brāhmin-settlements founded by persons whose names are given in the beginning. UttaraKuru-Dēśa (1.24) is again well known. Śravaṇabhadra (11, 28 and 39), which is mentioned also in the Tilakavāḍā grant of Bhōja,[1] may be somewhere near Kanauj in North India. Khēṭaka. (1.32), which is mentioned in the first two of our grants, is evidently Kheḍā or Kairā in Gujarāt. Nāndipura, which is stated to have been in Lāṭa country (1. 38), has been identified with the modern Nāndoḍ on the Narmadā. The name Asureśa-maṇḍala (1. 19) I am tempted to identify with a Hūṇa locality, and I also find that the name of the modern village Usārā in the Bhānpurā parganā of the Mandsaur District sounds somewhat similar to it. But the village Avivā (1.20), as stated to have been included in it, I am unable to identify. In course of his identifying most of the places, Dikshit states that ‘places like Kharjurikā, Sopura, Dapura, Ānoha, Avivā and Rājakīya grāma, may be found in the neighbourhood or within the province of Mālwā,[2] And following this remark, I could trace out a number of villages resembling these names throughout Mālwā ; one of them lying about 10 kms. to the east of the find-spot of the plates bears the complete name Khajūriā-Parmār. The name Dapura sounds like Devar, about 3 kms. south of Narwal (now in the Dēwās District). Rājakīyagrāma may perhaps have been the modern village Rānevās, about 5 kms. west of Narwal, or Rāipuryā in the Bhānpurā parganā of the Mandsaur District, which also shows a village of the name of Sopuryā. The remarks suggesting the location of places in Mālwā are all tentative, based only on the resemblance in names; but it is certain that some of them are to be found in the District of Ujjain and some others in that of Mandsaur, in which lie respectively the find-spot and the gift village, as proposed by me. It is interesting to note here that of all the regions from which Brāhmaṇas are stated to have migrated to Mālwā at the time when the present grant was issued, Bengal occupies the first place, giving the second or the third place to the United Provinces, Gujarāt and some other regions. It is also wroth noting that all the Brāhmaṇas hailing from Bengal are Sāmavēdins belonging to its Chhāndōgya-śākhā.
In the end we may reproduce the list of the Brāhmaṇa donees, in a tabular from, as given by K. N. Dikshit in his article in the Ep. Indica, op. cit., pp. 105-06 :–– Table showing the Brāhmaṇa donees of the Gaonrī Plates of Vākpati Muñja ; V.S. 1038.
________________________________________________________________________________________ [1] No. 15, 1.4, below.
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