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Vidy Ppt which is a poem of double-entendre of the class 
andaviyam, and which is reputed, without any reason- 
able sada to be the work of poiggintl 
The word Sild- Déngaina itself conveys no sense, and therefore 
Major Francklin was obliged to attach to it two different mean- 
ings in two different places. In one place he says it signifies 
another place says, “ Sil4-san ngama, or junction of the river nea 
rocks (the modern Patharghata), uy or in other Perv the con- 
fluence of the rivers Kosi and the Ganges near Patharghaté, 
the confluence is at a distance of three miles from that place. 
Consequently the statement ert the junction of the rivers was 
near Patharghaté can not at all be correct. But he has quite ~ 
overlooked the true eset or origin of the word Sangama. 
The word Sangam is “merely a corruption of Sanghdrdma which 
means a monastery,” and the compound word Sild-Sangharéma i is 
an abbreviation of Vikramasild-Sanghérama. apse of time has 
brought about this corruption and abbreviation of the term 
tury, that is in 1198 A.D. when the Magadha kingdom was con- 
quered by the Mahomedans, and it appears from the colophon 
of the Chora-panchdésika quoted by Major Francklin that the work 
was compiled in Samvat 1445, the words used being “uw [5] 2€ 
[4] aa [4] 4 wy [1] efea wees which symbolical figures, 
_according to the well-known rule of transposition, “ figures go to 
the left,’ * become 1445  Soreerpcninad to 1388 A.D, I think that 
: Ibid, p. p. 55. 
2 See Sir Monier Williams’ Buddhism, p. 428. He says, ‘‘ Then 
Buddhism spread, kings, princes and rich men competed with each other for 
the privilege of erecting vast monasteries—sometimes called Vih&ras, some- 
times Sanghérémas—to which alana libraries, and weg gael were acpi’ 
attache i 8, 
allowed to hold property in lan a” 
8 Rrafame aa Rye: PRIA: | 
ya Fea y waafed He Wa HeaT | 
va weenasha Vieafear areal aa STs: | 
Ftaafiearaicergrwata: Feces: | 
<fa Stcvaiferat—site of Ancient Pali-bothra, appendix xiii. 
‘aye areata: | 
