India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Vyaṅgarula (व्यङ्गरुल) refers to a village mentioned in the Paṭṭaṇakuḍi plates of Avasara II. Most of the donated villages and the places forming their boundaries cannot be identified now in the Ratnāgiri District, but Vyaṅgarula, modern Veṅgurle, the chief town of the Vengurle mahāl of the Ratnāgiri District.

Accordingly, “These three villages (e.g., Vyaṅgarula) are not to be interfered with by any royal officer, together with the right of adjudication of suits, which are not to be entered by cāṭas and bhaṭas and which, with the exception of previously made gifts to gods and Brāhmaṇas, are to be enjoyed by the learned teachers of religious students belonging to the Karkaroṇī branch of the holy Mattamayūra clan, and are to be preserved as long as the Moon and the Sun endure”.

These copper plates (mentioning Vyaṅgarula) were found by a Brāhmaṇa of Khārepāṭan, a town in the Devagaḍ tālukā of the Ratnāgiri District. The inscription refers itself to the reign of the Śilāra king, Māṇḍalika Raṭṭarāja. As his predecessors were loyal feudatories of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, it gives first the genealogy of that family from Dantidurga to Kakkala. The inscription is dated, in lines 41-42, on the full-moon tithi of Jyeṣṭha in the śaka year 930, the cyclic year being Kīlaka.

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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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