The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c20.26

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¹ *Namita-Murala-mauliḥ pākalō Mēkalānāṁ,* *raṇa-kalita-Kaliṅgaḥ keli-tat Kēral-ēndoḥ,* *Ajani jita-Kulūtaḥ Kuntalānām, kuṭhāraḥ,* *haṭha-hṛta-Ramaṭha-Śrīḥ Śrī-Mahīpāladēvaḥ.* *Tēna ca Raghu-vaṁśa-muktāmaṇinā-Āryāvarta-mahārājādhirājena* *Śrī-Nirbhayanarendra-nandanenādhikṛtāḥ sabhāsadaḥ sarvān......etc.* *Nirṇaya Sāgar Press Ed.*, I, 7-8. The Muralas may have inhabited the banks of the river Muralā which is identified by some with the river Narbada. (*Trikāṇḍaśeṣa*, Chapter I). But in the *Raghuvamśa* (IV. 54, 55) the river is placed after the Kerala country. The Mekalas probably lived in the region round about the Maikal Range (Amarkantak) in the Central Provinces. The Kulūtas were taken by Cunningham to be the inhabitants of Yuan Chwang's *Kiu-lu-to* "which corresponds exactly with the position of the district of Kullu in the upper valley of the Byās river." The position indicated is roughly the modern Kangra district. The Ramaṭhas "must be a neighbouring people, as they are placed with the Pāñcanadas in the western division in the *Bṛhat Saṁhitā* and with the Kulindas in the Northern division in the *Vāyu Purāṇa*." Kuntala, Kerala, and Kaliṅga are well known geographical divisions of ancient India, and require no identification. For the identifications see *GDI*, Luzac, 1927; *JL*, Vol. X, pp. 63-64.