History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c16.10

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Yuan Chwang goes on to state that a rock-cut monastery was excavated for Nāgārjuna at Po-lo-mo-lo-ki-li by a king named Yin-Cheng who cut a path along the rock surface nearly two miles in length, communicating with the other monastery. The Po-lo-mo-lo-ki-li is no doubt the Bhramara-giri now in the Rewa State. The name was discovered by the present writer in an inscription dated 973 A. D., at Chandrehe, twenty-nine miles due south of Rewa town in the State of that name in the Baghelkhaṇḍ Agency.¹ Previous to the discovery of this inscription various theories had been propounded by different scholars about the locality of Bhramara hill. It has also been suggested that Bhramara is really another name for Pārvatī. Burgess proposed to identify this Bhramaragiri with Śrī-śaila on the Kṛshṇā river, though it was much beyond the limits of the country of Kośala. The Bhramaragiri, in the Rewa State, has not been properly explored as yet and further exploration may lead to the discovery of the remains of the five-storeyed monastery described by Yuan Chwang.