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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH
remained in use till the beginning of the fifth century A.C. at least. ... As no definite information is available about the original findspot of the present plates, it is not easy to locate the places mentioned in them; and none have been identified so far. After a good deal of search for them, I have been able to find some of them in the respective directions in the Bālāghāṭ District of Madhya Pradesh. Kōśamba which lay to the north of the donated village is probably identical with Kośambakhaṇḍa which Pravarasēna II granted by his Tiroḍī plates. As shown elsewhere, the latter is identical with Kōsamba, 6 miles to the south of Tirōḍī. Añjanavāṭaka which defined the eastern boundary of the donated village is probably Añjanwāḍī, about 5 miles to the south-east of Kōsamba. Kōbidārikā which lay to the west of the donated village may be Kunargaon, 4 miles south by west of Kosamba. These three villages thus lie in the same directions as those stated in the present grant. Gēpuraka and Ārāmaka cannot, however, be found in the neighbour hood of these villages. If these identification are correct, the grant may have originally belonged to the Bālāghāṭ District.
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