WITH MANALURU NEAR MADURA. 



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of Arabic and Persian words, clearly indicates. Mafus Bandar 

 (s6-*-^j-T>*fboa>c&&) should be properly transcribed Mahfuz 

 Bandar jjo ^^^) } which means a secure harbour, serving 

 once probably Chicacole (Srlkdhulam) for such a purpose. 

 Professor Lassen anxious to find a place on the north-eastern 

 coast of the Dekkan which he could identify with Manipura, 

 the capital of Babhruvahana, fixed on Mafus Bandar, mis- 

 taking Mafus for Manphur (Manipura) most likely in conse- 

 quence of a wrong application of the diacritical points over 

 two letters. It may here be remarked that the originally 

 Persian word Bandar is quite commonly used in Telugu, in 

 the meaning of harbour, thus, e.g., Masulipatam is generally 

 called Bandar. The reason of this fact is that the seafaring 

 population are mostly Muhammedans, the Arabs being in 

 former times great navigators in these parts of the world. 203 



I believe that Professor Lassen was to a great extent induced 

 to fix Manipura so far north, by limiting too much the 

 extent of the Mahendra-mountain range, which he opined to be 

 a particular mountain situated in Kalinga, and starting from 

 these premises he went so far as to declare that the country 

 Kalinga was wrongly mentioned in the Mahabharata, as 

 the region which, together with Anga and Vanga, Arjuna 

 has passed through on his journey. The name Mahendra can 

 apply to all the mountains near the Eastern Coast, including 

 the Eastern Grhats as well as the mountains near the sea of 

 Bengal in the utmost south. Indra is the regent of the 

 East, and the whole Eastern Coast is under his protection ; 

 a mountain near Rajamandry in the north is called Bdjama- 

 hendra and the highest and most southern mountain in India 

 bears the name Mahendragiri. 



In the Ramayana Hanuman is said to have jumped from 



203 North of Vizianagram lies inland a place called Munipurlpeta. 



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