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1881.] R. K. Bhattacharya— Identity of TJpello loith Tip ay lav a. 
as the etymology of both words refers to similar circumstances, Chattis- 
garh being so named from its being supposed to comprise thirty-six forts. 
According to Bharata the commentator on our text, Dasarna is derived from 
Dasa ten and Rina a stronghold or Durga of the Peninsula and hence 
means the district of the ten citadels.” 
If we rely on the above a part of the question is solved. Let us now 
look after Malada. 
In his commentary on the 15th sloka of Meghadiita in which a term 
Mala occurred, Mr. Wilson observes that “ the easterly progress of the cloud 
and the subsequent direction by which he is to reach the mountain A'mra- 
cuta, prove that the place here mentioned must be somewhere in the imme¬ 
diate vicinity of Ruttanpore, the chief town of the northern half of the 
province of Chattisgarh and described in Captain Blunt’s tour, Asiatic 
Researches, Yol. II, the only modern traces that ean be found of it are in a 
plane called Malda, a little to the north of Ruttanpore; in Ptolemy’s map 
there is a town called Maleta and situated with respect to the Yindya 
mountains similarly with the Mala of our poet.” 
Many places may be found in the map of India under the name of 
Mala or Malwa. A. term which according to the Prakrita Grammar may be 
supposed to have been derived from the Sanskrit Malada. Mr. Wilford in 
his lists from the Puranas has applied this name to the Malabhoom of Midana- 
pur, Bengal, while according to Pliny Malas are the countries of the Mali 
of the Punjab, a tribe who are described to have fought a dreadful battle with 
Alexander the Great. Besides these, a district of the same name, as we 
have already mentioned, is still to be found in northern Bengal. 
This being the case, nothing ean be precisely determined by merely 
saying that Matsyadesa was situated between Dasarna and Malada; for we 
cannot ascertain which of the above mentioned places is meant here. (1) 
If Malabhoom of Midanapur be taken for it, the first tradition may be 
deemed acceptable. (2) If Maldah of Bengal be considered to have been 
the Malada of the text, it would furnish a strong argument in support of 
the second. (8) If we concur with Mr. Wilson, the place so described 
in the Bengali map might be considered as possibly a correct one. So the 
solution still is enveloped in hopeless confusion. 
Let us adopt another way which may lead us to the correct place. 
Manu in his division of India states:— 
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