The Sanskrit term Śarabhapura can be transliterated into English as Sarabhapura or Sharabhapura, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Google Books: Vakataka - Gupta Age Circa 200-550 A.D.

Śarabhapura (शरभपुर).—Contemporaneously with the family of Śūra was ruling a line of kings who had their capital at the city of Śarabhapura. The city has not been satisfactorily identified, different scholars locating it at Sambalpur, Sarangarh, Sarpagarh and other places. But as the charters issued from Śarabhapura have been found about the Raipur district, C.P., the royal city appears to have been situated not far from modern Sirpur (ancient Śrīpura which became the later capital of the Śarabhapurīyas) in the same district. The city of Śarabhapura was apparently founded by a king named Śarabha who seems also to have been the founder of the dynasty of the Śarabhapura rulers.

Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptions

Śarabhapura (शरभपुर).—The exact identity of Śarabha-pura is uncertain. Mr. L. P. Pandeya, previously, identified Śarabha-pura with the village Sarappur or Sarapgarh, the headquarters of a Zamindari tract by that name in the Gangpur Feudatory State, but later on he himself left this claim on account of the scarcity of evidences in support of Sarappur being an ancient town. He suggested a new identification of Śarabha-pura with Sarabha or Sarwa near the town of Sheorinarayrn in the Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh. Dr. Stenkonow held that Śarabha-pura is identical with Sarabhavaram in the Chodavaram division, ten miles east from the bank of the Godavari and twenty miles from Rajahmundry. Late Dr. R. L. Mitter was in favour of taking Sambalpur as the representative towm of ancient Śarabhapura. Mr. Hira Lal, however, suggested that Śarabha-pura was the other name of Śrī-pura imposed by the victor in honour of his memory.

Source: What is India: Epigraphia Indica volume XXXI (1955-56)

Śarabhapura refers to a dynasty of kings mentioned in the “Sirpur plates of Mahāsudevarāja”. The names of the kings of this family so far known from the inscriptions are: Narendra, son of Śarabha; Mahājayarāja, son of Prasanna who is also known from a number of gold and silver coins on which his name occurs as Prasannamātra; Mahāsudevarāja who was the son of Mānamātra (descended from Prasanna according to the Khariar and Ārang plates) or of Mahādurgarāja according to the Kauvātāl plates; and Mahāpravararāja, son of Mānamātra.

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Partial matches: Sharabha, Pura.

Full-text: Sharabha, Sharabharaja, Prasannapura, Jayaraja, Vakataka.

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