Brahmasthala
Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Brahmasthala (ब्रह्मस्थल), according to Jaina record 'Vasudeva Hindi', is ancient name of Hastinapura in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.[1] Kathāsaritsāgara (ch.75) mentions a village of this name near Ujjain; Kathāsaritsāgara, ch.96 mentions a district of this name in Pataliputra.
Origin
Variants
- Brahmasthala ब्रह्मस्थल (AS: p.651)
- Brahma-sthala
History
1) Brahmasthala (ब्रह्मस्थल) is the name of an ancient city near Ujjayinī, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 75. Accordingly, “... and in course of time I (Vikramakeśarin) reached a village near it [Ujjayinī], named Brahmasthala, and there I sat down on the bank of a lake at the foot of a tree. There an old Brāhman, afflicted with the bite of a serpent, came up to me and said: ‘Rise up from this place, my son, lest you incur my fate. For there is a great serpent here, and I am so tortured by the bite which he has given me that I am now about to drown myself in this lake’”.[2][3]
2) Brahmasthala (ब्रह्मस्थल) is the name of an ancient district (rāṣṭra) situated in Pāṭaliputra (Pāṭaliputrapura), according to the twenty-second story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 96. Accordingly, “... in his (king Dharaṇīvarāha) realm, which abounded in Brāhmans, there was a royal grant to Brāhmans named Brahmasthala; and on it there lived a Brāhman of the name of Viṣṇusvāmin”. [4][5]
ब्रह्मस्थल
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[6] ने लेख किया है ...ब्रह्मस्थल (AS: p.651): जैन ग्रंथ वसुदेव हिंडि (सातवीं-आठवीं शती ई.) में हस्तिनापुर (जिला मेरठ, उत्तर प्रदेश) का एक नाम. इस ग्रंथ में महाभारत की कथा का जैन रूपांतर किया गया है.
External links
References
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.651
- ↑ Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara
- ↑ https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/brahmasthala
- ↑ Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara
- ↑ https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/brahmasthala
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.651