काव्यमीमांसा (महाकवि राजशेखर - कवि-रहस्य एवं देश-विभाग सटीक)

300 APPENDIX I. Greek historians as Harmatalia, a corrupt or foreign pronunciation of the Sanskrit word Brāhmaṇasthala. Brāhmaṇavāha seems to be the Hindu name of the city which the Muhamadans afterwards called Brāhmanābād. It was situated on the eastern reaches of the river Indus. Its present position seems to be in the neigh- bourhood of Hala in Sindh at two-thirds of the distance from Multan to the mouth of the Indus and it lies parallel to Hala. Here, the ruins of a large city have been excavated recently, where various pre- historic remains have been discovered. This ruined city lies at a distance of 47 miles to the north-east of Hyderabad, and 28 miles north-east of Hala. The place is now known as Bambhraka-thul or the ‘Ruined Tower’ and this name is derived from a broken brick tower which is the only building now standing. It was un- doubtedly one of the oldest cities in India; the historian Bilādhura writing a thousand years ago calls it ‘Brāhmaṇābād-al atiqah’ or Brāhmaṇābād the ancient. (see Cun- ningham’s A. G. pp. 306-318; Map. ix., and Ibid. Notes p. 691). 123. Bhādānaka ...Rājaśekhara does not give its exact location but mentions that the people of Bhādānaka talked a language which had an admixture of Apabhraṁśa like the people of Maru and the Ṭakkas. Bhādānaka, therefore, appears to be the same as the Bhādiya or Bhādiyanagara of the Pāli books. Mr. N. L. Dey identifies this Bhādiya with Bha- daria eight miles to the south of Bha- galpur in Bihar. Mahāvīra, the last Jain Tīrthaṅkara is said to have visited this