The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.49

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⁶ The suggestion has been made to me,—by Mr. K. B. Pathak, I think,—that Triparvata is the modern Murgôd, the chief town of the Murgôd mahâl in the Parasgad tâluka, Belgaum District. There is some similarity in the names: for, the Sanskrit Triparvata means 'three hills or mountains;' while, in Murgôd, gôḍu is evidently the Kanarese kôḍu, 'the peak or summit of a mountain,' and, though Mr. Kittel's Kannada-English Dictionary gives no specific authority for saying so, mur may perhaps stand for mūru, 'three,' the long ū of which is shortened in munnūru, 'three hundred,' mukkālu, 'three feet,' and a few other words. But mur stands more probably for mura = muraka, muṛaka, 'bent, broken, fragmentary.' And I am told that the name of Murgôd is, as a fact, Sanskritised both as Triśṛiṅgapura, 'the town of the three peaks,' and as Bhinnaśṛiṅgapura, 'the town of the broken peak.' Murgôd lies below the western face of a long range of low hills, in which there are plenty of projecting bluffs. I have not, however, been able to see, anywhere near it, any features suggesting the idea of three particular hills or peaks; to be singled out from the rest. And my own opinion is, that Triparvata must be looked for much further to the south, and somewhere towards the ghauts.—For some general remarks by Dr. Burnell on the Sanskritising of vernacular names, see his South-Indian Palæography second edition, p. x. note 2.