Alternative spellings of this word include Bhirukachchha.

India history and geography

Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early Buddhism

Bhirukaccha (भिरुकच्छ) or Bhirukaccha is the name of a city named after Bhiru according to the Divyāvadāna, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—In the Divyāvadāna there is a very interesting story accounting for the name of the city. It is said that Rudrāyaṇa, King of Roruka (may be identical with Alor, an old city of Sindh), in Sauvīra was killed by his son Sikhaṇḍi. As a punishment of this crime, the realm of Sikhaṇḍī, the parricide king, was destroyed by a heavy shower of sands. Three pious men only survived—two ministers and a Buddhist monk—who went out in search of a new land. Bhiru, one of the two ministers at last found one and established a new city there which came to he named after him—Bhiruka or Bhirukaccha whence came the name Bharukaccha.

Bhrigukaccha is, however, the Sanskrit rendering which means ’high coast land’ and the city is exactly situated on a high coast land. According to Brahmanical tradition, the city was so called because it was founded by the sage Bhrigu. Bhrigukaccha is mentioned in the Kūrmavibhāga and Bhuvanakoṣa; and it is identical with Barygaza of Ptolemy and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea. It is modern Broach in Kathiawar.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Bhirukaccha (भिरुकच्छ).—nt., another name for prec. (2): Divyāvadāna 576.25.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Bhirukaccha (भिरुकच्छ):—[=bhiru-kaccha] [from bhiru] n. Name of a town, [ib.]

2) Bhīrukaccha (भीरुकच्छ):—[=bhīru-kaccha] [from bhīru > bhī] m. [plural] Name of a people, [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa] ([probably] [wrong reading] for bharu-k).

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Bhirukaccha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Kaccha, Bhiru.

Full-text: Bhrigukaccha, Bharukaccha, Bhiruka.

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