Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s5.22

c8.s5.22

The Brāhmaṇa donees of the copper-plate grants were often mentioned as hailing from localities where their families originally flourished. Such information and similar other facts recorded in inscriptions give us an idea about the migration of people from one part of the country to another. Thus the Kolagallu and Kuḍatini inscriptions,³³ found in the Bellary region of Mysore, show how the Brāhmaṇa Gadādhara of Taḍāgrāma (near Dinajpur in North Bengal) situated in Varendrī, watered by the Gaṅgā and forming a part of the Gauḍa country, settled in the south. The said epigraphs and others also suggest that the area called Pāhuni-yojana in the Hili-Bālurghāṭ region of North Bengal later became famous as Śrāvasti as a result of the settlement of a large number of Brāhmaṇas from Śrāvasti in U. P.³⁴