Brihad-Adanika, Bṛhad-Aḍaṇikā: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Bṛhad-Aḍaṇikā can be transliterated into English as Brhad-Adanika or Brihad-Adanika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
India history and geography
Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the ŚilāhārasBṛhad-Aḍaṇikā (बृहद्-अडणिका) is the name of a village mentioned as lying in the Śūrpāraka-ṣaṭṣaṣṭi province (viṣaya), according to the “Ṭhāṇā plates of Mummuṇirāja”. Accordingly, “the village Bṛhad-Aḍaṇikā (Large Aḍaṇikā) situated in the Śūrpārakaṣaṭṣaṣṭi-viṣaya, the boundaries of which, are as follows:—from the north-east to the south-east, an Aśvattha tree, a Nyagrodha tree and an Aśvattha tree combined with a tamarind tree, and also a Khadira tree and waste land; on the south, a Vāṃkaḍi field and the Siṅghala-dvīpa field; on the west, a row of (boundary) stones and also stones fixed in the ground; on the north, a Madhu field”.
Dr. Dikṣit has shown that the two villages Bṛhad-Aḍaṇikā and Laughu-Aḍaṇikā are identical with the village Adaṇe, situated 8½ miles to the east of Virār, which lies about 5 miles north of Soparā (ancient Śūrpāraka). A small stream separates the two parts of the village, which seem to have been known by the names of the Larger and Smaller Aḍaṇikās in ancient times.
These copper plates (mentioning Bṛhad-Aḍaṇikā) were discovered in 1956 while digging the ground between the Church and the District Office at Ṭhāṇā, the chief town of the Ṭhāṇā District in Mahārāṣṭra. Its object is to record the grant, by the Śilāhāra Mummuṇirāja, of some villages and lands to learned Brāhmaṇas on the occasion of the lunar eclipse on the fifteenth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the Śaka year 970, the cyclic year being Sarvadhārin.
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Partial matches: Brihad.
Full-text: Laghu-Adanika.
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