India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Paramaras

Mahuāḍa (महुआड) is the name of a village mentioned in the “Māndhātā copper-plate inscription of Devapāla”.—As Kielhorn has observed, the village Satājuṇā appears to be the modern village of the same name, situated about 20 kms. south-west of Māndhātā in Long. 76° 3’ and Lat. 22° 8’. Mahuāḍa, after which the Pratijāgaraṇaka was called, may probably be the village Mohoḍ, about 40 kms. south of Satājuṇā, in Long. 76° and Lat. 21° 48’. About 3 kms. to the west of Dharampurī in the Dhār District there is a village of the name of Moḍ; it is about 3 kms. north of the Narmadā; and this name also suggests its identification with the Mahuāḍa of the inscription; but its distance from Satājuṇā, which is not less than 50 miles (80 kms.), and its situation on the opposite side of the Narmadā make it less possible to identify it with the Mahuäḍa of the record, though the case cannot altogether be precluded.

These copper plates (mentioning Mahuāḍa) were discovered in 1905 in the former State of Dhār, near the temple of Siddheśvara at Māndhātā, better known by the longer name Oṃkāra-Māndhātā (an island in the Narmadā attached to the East Nemāḍ District in Madhya Pradesh). It records the donation of the village of Satājunā in the Mahuaḍa Pratijāgaraṇaka, by Devapāla. It is dated on the full moon day of Bhādrapada in the (Vikrama) year 1282, which corresponds to the 19th August, 1225 A.C.

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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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