Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.344

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c10.344

Tumbavana.—It is mentioned in six of the votive inscriptions of the great stūpa at Sāñcī and in the Tumain inscription of Kumāragupta and Ghaṭotkacagupta, dated GE. 116 (E.I., XXVI, Pt. III, July, 1941). The Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira (XIV, 15) refers to it. It is identified with Tumain, six miles to the south of Tukneri railway station and about 50 miles to the north-west of Eran (ancient Airikiṇa).

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Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit