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locality. The Brhat Samhita places them in the South-eastern
division of India which comprised of, among other tracts,
the Vindhyan region. It distinguishes two classess of this
people the nagnas'abaras (naked S'abaras) and the parna.
s'abaras (leaf-clad or leaf-eating S'abaras).
The wind next has to pass through Yayātinagari which
appears from epigraphic records to have been on the river
Mahānadi. It was sought to be identified with Jajpur which
being on the river Vaitaraṇī the identification has been proved to
be untenable. It is now supposed to be identical with Vinīta-
pura (modern Binkā) a small town in the Sonepur State, Central
Provinces. The name Yayātīnagara was apparently imposed
upon Vinitapura during the reign of Yayāti, otherwise known
as Mahās'ivagupta.³
The Keralis are mentioned as living on the Kaveri (v. 16) as
also in Yayatinagari. According to Prof. Bhandarkar the Keralas
were originally a northern people, who, as is known from the
Aitareya Aranyaka*, were settled not far from Magadha.
These according to him, were probably the Cheros of the
Mirzapor Dt. U. P. And the mention of the Keralas in
Yayātinagar is interpreted by him to refer to one of their
movements to the south before they were settled in Malabar."
From Yāyātinagari the wind has to reach Suhma or south-
west Bengal. Suhma was one of the divisions into which Bengal
Brhatsamhita XIV. 10.
1.
2. Epigraphia Indica-Vol III, p. 355.
3. Ibid Vol. XI. p. 189.
4. II. 1. 1.
5. As'oka p. 41. Dr. H. C. Roychoudhury however makes
to me an alternative suggestion according to which the mention of
Keralis in Yayatinagara may only be a reference to a settlement
of Kerali courtezans there.
locality. The Brhat Samhita places them in the South-eastern
division of India which comprised of, among other tracts,
the Vindhyan region. It distinguishes two classess of this
people the nagnas'abaras (naked S'abaras) and the parna.
s'abaras (leaf-clad or leaf-eating S'abaras).
The wind next has to pass through Yayātinagari which
appears from epigraphic records to have been on the river
Mahānadi. It was sought to be identified with Jajpur which
being on the river Vaitaraṇī the identification has been proved to
be untenable. It is now supposed to be identical with Vinīta-
pura (modern Binkā) a small town in the Sonepur State, Central
Provinces. The name Yayātīnagara was apparently imposed
upon Vinitapura during the reign of Yayāti, otherwise known
as Mahās'ivagupta.³
The Keralis are mentioned as living on the Kaveri (v. 16) as
also in Yayatinagari. According to Prof. Bhandarkar the Keralas
were originally a northern people, who, as is known from the
Aitareya Aranyaka*, were settled not far from Magadha.
These according to him, were probably the Cheros of the
Mirzapor Dt. U. P. And the mention of the Keralas in
Yayātinagar is interpreted by him to refer to one of their
movements to the south before they were settled in Malabar."
From Yāyātinagari the wind has to reach Suhma or south-
west Bengal. Suhma was one of the divisions into which Bengal
Brhatsamhita XIV. 10.
1.
2. Epigraphia Indica-Vol III, p. 355.
3. Ibid Vol. XI. p. 189.
4. II. 1. 1.
5. As'oka p. 41. Dr. H. C. Roychoudhury however makes
to me an alternative suggestion according to which the mention of
Keralis in Yayatinagara may only be a reference to a settlement
of Kerali courtezans there.