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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH
Pravarasēna II’s reign. The second set does not, therefore, appear to be spurious. The reason why it includes the name of a previously donated village seems to be that the Brāhmaṇa donee probably made a request to the king to give him a consolidated charter for the two grants. ...As for the localities mentioned in the present grants, Nandivardhana has already been shown to be identical with Nandardhan (or Nagardhan) near Rāmṭēk in the Nāgpur District. Mahalla-lāṭa or Mahallama-lāṭa which seems to mean the larger Lāṭa may be represented by Lāḍkī or Chāṭ Lāḍkī in the Mōrsī tālukā of the Amarāvatī District, about 18 miles north by west of Bēlōrā1. Mahalla-Lāṭa lay in the mārga of Śailapura which may be identical with Sālbarḍi2 situated in the midst of hills about 15 miles east of Lāḍkī. Asi, the chief town of the bhukti (subdivision) in which Mahalla-Lāṭa was situated, may be identical with Ashṭī which lies only 10 miles south of Bēlōrā. Dīrghadraha is probably Dīghī on the left bank of the Wardhā, about 30 miles south of Ashṭī. The name of Pravarēśvara-shaḍviṁśativāṭaka which is mentioned in both the grants as the home of the donee seems to indicate that it was the chief village in a group of twenty-six villages. Perhaps it received this name from a shrine of Śiva called Pravarēśvara installed by Pravarasēna I and named after himself3. This place as well as Pākkaṇa, the headquarters of the rāshṭra (division) in which Dirghadraha, one of the donated villages, was situated, cannot be traced now.
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