The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.114

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period. They, and the passage in the Brihat-Samhitâ, give the ancient vernacular name of the place. The form Elûrâ or Ellôrâ is naturally derived from it. And Elâpura is, in my opinion, only a Sânskritised form of the latter. Verûl-is, I suppose, a corruption of Vellûr, chiefly by metathesis; and Yerulâ, of Verûl.—There may, quite possibly, be a reference to Ellôrâ, and to the number of the cave-temples there, in the expression dvâtrimśad-vêlâpura, which occurs in the Buddhist inscription of A.D. 1095 at Dambal (Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 186, line 29), and in other inscriptions (not Buddhist) in the Kanarese country.—Dr. Bühler (Archæol. Surv. West. Ind. Vol. V. p. 89) has suggested that Elâpura may possibly have been on the hill above the Elûrâ caves, on which, beyond the modern town of Rôzah, are the remains of an old Hindû city. The Musalmân town of Rôzah itself seemed to me to have been largely constructed from Hindû remains. But I think there is no necessity for locating, Vellûra, Vellûraka, or Elâpura, otherwise than where the present village of Verûl is.