The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.245

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¹¹ There seem to have been more places than one, whether regions or towns, named Ahichchhatra; or else the traditions connected with the name were very mixed and confusing. — Hiuen Tsiang visited a place of this name, called by him, 'O-hi-chi-ta-lo (Buddhist Records of the Western World, Vol. I. p. 200), which Gen. Sir Alexander Cunningham (Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. I. p. 255) identified with the modern Râmnagar, about twenty-two miles to the north of Badaun in the North-West Provinces. While Prof. Lassen (Map of Ancient India) identifies apparently the same one with the modern Farokhâbâd, about fifty-five miles to the south-east of Badaun. — Prof. Hall, (Vishnu-Purâṇa, Vol. II. p. 161, note §) suggests that one of them was not far from the Vindhya mountains. — The Padma-Purâṇa appears to place an Ahichchhatra in Assam (Jour. R. As. Soc., F. S., Vol. V. p. 295). — The scholiast on the Haimakôśa, iv. 28, locates a region of this name somewhere in the north of India (Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XXX, p. 197, note). — A Sinda inscription at Bhairamaṭṭi in the Bijâpur District (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III, p. 230) asserts that Sinda, the alleged founder of the family, was born at Ahichchhatra in the region of the river Sindhu, i. e. the Indus.