Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c20.s3.51

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³ This was Berar with the adjoining regions (*cf.* Ep. Ind., xxvi. 147). That Nāchnā and Ganj were in the Gupta Age apparently included within Dakshiṇāpatha is suggested by the *Bṛihat Saṁhitā* (xiv. 13) which places even Chitrakūṭa in the Dakshiṇa or Southern Division. A recent Vākāṭaka Inscription discovered in the Drug District contains an interesting reference to Padmapura which Professor Mirashi identifies with the ancestral home of Bhavabhūti and with the modern Padampur near Amgaon in the Bhaṇḍārā District of the Central Provinces. *IHQ*, 1935, 299; *Ep. Ind.*, xxii, 207 ff. The Basim grant implies control of a branch of the family over the part of Berar south of the Ajanta range.