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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE TRAIKUTAKAS
the victorious Aniruddhapurī mentioned in the Bagumrā plates1 of the Sēndraka Allaśakti.
He identified it with Śūrpāraka, Sopārā in the Thānā District, on the authority of the
lexicon Vaijayantī.2 But the statement in the lexicon only places Śūrpāraka in the Aparānta
country. It does not state that it was the capital of Aparānta at any time, much
less at the time of the Traikūtakas. Besides, the mention of Aniruddhapurī as the place
or residence of the Brāhmana donee of the Bagumrā grant indicates that it should be looked
for not very far from the donated village which was near Bagumrā. It was therefore,
probably situated in South Gujarāt. I have not, however, been able to trace any place-
name similar to it in that part of the country. Purōhitapallikā, the donated village,
is probably identical with Pāl, two miles to the west of Surat.3 Iksharakī, the headquarters
of the āhāra in which it was situated, is probably represented by Achchhāran,
about 9 miles north of Surat.
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1Below No. 26, line 25.
2Cf. Aparāntās=tu pāschātyās=tē cha Śūrpārak=ādayah cited by Mallinātha on Raghuvamśa, Canto
IV, v. 53.
3From the name Purōhitapallikā of the donated village, Dr. Hultzsch inferred that the donee
Nāgaśarman was the king’s family priest (purōhita). But the conjecture appears improbable, as the village
bore the name even before the grant.
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