[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960) › c19.4 # Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c19.4 Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c19.4 - **Language:** English ### [c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19.4) A copper-plate inscription, dated Śaka 734 (812-13 A.D.), of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa chief Kakka II Suvarṇavarṣa of Lāṭa or Gujarāt was published in the \*Indian Antiquary\*, Vol. XII, pp. 156 ff. It records the grant of the village of Vaḍapadraka in the Aṅkoṭṭaka eighty-four (\*Aṅkoṭṭaka-caturaśīti-antarggata-Vaḍapadrakābhidhāna-grāma\*). Aṅkoṭṭaka is modern Akoṭa, a suburb of Baroda (Vaḍapadraka). The Set-Mahet plate³ of the Gāhaḍavāla king Govindacandra, dated Vikrama Saṃvat 1186 (1130 A.D.), records the grant of certain villages in the Pattalā or district called Vādā (or, Vājā) Caturaśīti. Another grant⁴ of Madanapāla dated V.S. 1164 (1108 A.D.), similarly speaks of the gift of a village in Māṇighapura-Caturāsikā, in which Caturāsikā is no doubt the same as Caturāśitikā or Caurāsī. It should, however, not be supposed that only the word 'eighty-four' is associated with the names of districts. We have numerous other numbers similarly associated with geographical units.¹ A Pratijāgaraṇaka or Pargaṇā within the dominions of the Paramāra kings of Malwa is called Saptāśīti-pratijāgaraṇaka (i.e. Pargaṇā consisting of eighty-seven villages) in an inscription of V.S. 1331.² But such numbers as 87 were not as popular as 84 in the context of geographical names. - [Previous: c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19.3) - [Next: c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19.5) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) - [Baroda plates of Karka-Suvarṇavarṣa, Śaka 734](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.rastrakuta.baroda-plates-of-karka-suvarnavarsa-saka-734) — Sanskrit - [Memorial pillar inscription of the reign of Vallāladēva](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.central.varia.memorial-pillar-inscription-of-the-reign-of-vallaladeva) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1960.c19.4) · Pramāṇa