India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963

Khandhavārapiṭṭhi is the name of an ancient locality in the Polonnaruva (Polonnaruwa) district of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).—Vijitagama or Vijitanagara or Vijitapura was a settlement said to have been founded by one of Vijaya’s Ministers, but a later tradition is that its founder was one of the brothers-in-law of Paṇḍuvāsudeva: the older Chronicle, the Dīpavaṃsa, does not name Vijita as one of the latter. [...] A suburb of Polonnaruva named Vijita is mentioned in the reign of Parakkamabāhu I. Vijita, the 12th century suburb of Polonnaruva, Khandhavārapiṭṭhi which was Duṭṭhagāmaṇi’s camp in front of Vijitanagara, and Kaṅdavuru-nuvara, the early name for Polonnaruva, are all associated with Vijitanagara, and Parker, Storey, Codrington and Paranavitana are undoubtedly right in locating Vijitanagara at or very near the later Polonnaruva. Near Khandhavārapiṭṭhi was Hatthipora.

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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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Partial matches: Pitthi, Khandhavara.

Full-text: Hatthipora, Vijitanagara, Vijitapura, Kandavuru-nuvara.

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