Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c19.7

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¹ Cf. e.g., the Paṭṭalā named Rudamaua-bayālīsi in Govindacandra's Kamauli plate of V. S. 1190 (1133 A.D.), published in *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. IV, pp. 111-12. In this name *bayālīsi* means 'forty-two'. An inscription (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XVIII., pp. 344 ff.) of Paramāra Udayāditya, dated V. S. 1229 (1171 A.D.), mentions the area around Bhilsa in the former Gwalior State as Bhāillasvāmi-mahādvādaśaka-maṇḍala (i.e. the district called Bhāillasvāmin consisting of twelve subdivisions). It also mentions a subdistrict consisting of sixty-four villages as the Bhṛṅgārikā-catuḥṣaṣṭi *pathaka* (cf. *Ep. Ind* Vol., XXX, pp. 210-11). A grant of the Somavaṁśī king Mahāśivagupta Yayāti I (*c.* 970-1000 A.D.) of Orissa mentions a district called Ṣaṇṇavati, *i.e.* ninety-six (No. 27 of *A.R. E.p.*, 1052-53, App. A).