India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Kalvāla is the name of a rice-village mentioned in the “Balipattana plates of Raṭṭarāja”. Accordingly, “... granted to Saṅkamaiya, son of the Brāhmaṇa Seṇāvaī Nāgamaiya, a rice-field yielding two crops annually in the rice-village of Kalvāla...”.

These copper plates (mentioning Kalvāla) were in the possession of Prof. S. R. Bhandarkar and was issued from Balipattana (the capital of Raṭṭarāja). It records certain gifts made by Raṭṭarāja to Saṅkamaiya, son of the Brāhmaṇa Nāgamaiya. It is dated in the Śaka year 932 on the occasion of the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti, which fell on Sunday, the 1st tithi of the dark fortnight of Puṣya (i.e. Pauṣa), the cyclic year being Sādhāraṇa.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Kālvāla (काल्वाल):—mfn. ‘bald (?)’, only kālvālī-kṛta mfn. made bald (?), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa ii, 2, 4, 3.]

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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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Starts with: Kal-valai, Kalvalage.

Full-text: Kalvalikrita.

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