Daddarapura

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Daddarapura (दद्दरपुर) was an ancient city in Chedi Kingdom founded by one of the five sons of Chedi King Uparichara.

Variants

• Daddarapura (दद्दरपुर) (AS, p.424)

History

Google Scholar Reshma Rai shares that the Chedi territory corresponded roughly to the eastern part of modern Bundelkhand. Pargiter places Chedis along the south bank of the Yamuna from the Chambal on the northwest to as far as Karvi on the south-east.

Its limits southwards may have been the Plateau of Malwa and the hills of Bundelkhand. Its capital was known as Sotthivati- nagar or Shuktimati or Shukti-Sahvaya. Other important towns were Sahajati and Tripuri.

The Chetiya Jataka traces the descent of Chedi kings from Mahasammata and Mandhata. Upachara, a king of the line, had five sons who are said to have founded the cities of Hatthipura (Hastinapura), Assapura (in Anga), Sinhapura (Lala from where Vijaya went to Ceylon), Uttarapanchala (Ahichchhatra) and Daddarapura (in the Himalayan region). Shishupala, the legendary enemy of Krishna, was a Chedi king. However, except these epic lengends nothing authentic is known about the Chedis.

दद्दरपुर

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर ने लेख किया है ...दद्दरपुर (AS, p.424) एक प्राचीन नगर था, जिसकी स्थापना 'चेतियजातक' के अनुसार, चेदि नरेश 'उपचर' के एक पुत्र ने की थी। दद्दरपुर नगर चेदि देश में बसाया गया था। उपचर के चार अन्य पुत्रों ने भी चार विभिन्न नगरों की स्थापना की थी। हेमचन्द्र रायचौधरी का मत है कि यह राजा महाभारत, आदिपर्व 63, 30-33 में उल्लिखित चेदि नरेश उपरिचर वसु है, जिसके पांच पुत्रों ने पांच राज्य वंश चलाए थे। 'चेतियजातक' में चेदि नरेश उपचर के पांच पुत्रों द्वारा 'हत्थिपुर', 'अस्सपुर', 'सीहपुर', 'उत्तर पांचाल' और 'दद्दरपुर' नामक नगरों के बसाए जाने का उल्लेख है। (दे. चेदि)