A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.730

v4.c58.730

1692 There has been some confusion on Vopadeva's residence, both among ancient and modern scholars, based on wrong interpretations of the closing lines of the Kavikalpadruma and Candrakalā. Durgādāsa, the commentator on the Kavikalpadruma, did not regard Vedapada as the name of Vopadeva's native place, but as indicating a place of Veda study. Modern scholars (see, for example, NCC V, 67–68) considered Sārtha to be the name of Keśava's (and Vopadeva's) residence, though sārthābhidhāna in one of the concluding verses of the Candrakalā only qualifies Vedapada there. Actually, Vopadeva clearly states that he lived in Vedapada (end of the Candrakalā, Siddhamantraprakāśa, Kavikalpadruma and Mugdhabodha). This Vedapada was situated near the river Varadā (the modern Vardhā). It was the capital of king Simharāja (Bāpālāl Vaidya, 1982: 582). The country lying on the banks of this river is now called Berar (the ancient Vidarbha). The village Bedoda, in the Adilabad district of Karṇātaka, at a distance of about ten miles to the west of the river Vardhā, may be identical with the ancient Vedapada (G.B. Palsule, 1953).