Kantaka
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Kantaka (कंटक) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi (4.2.80.5).
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Mention by Panini
Kantaka (कंटक) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi under Kashadi (काशादि) (4.2.80.5) group. [1]
Jat clans
History
Cantiaci or Cantii were an Iron Age Celtic people living in Britain before the Roman conquest, and gave their name to a civitas of Roman Britain. They lived in the area now called Kent, in south-eastern England. Their capital was Durovernum Cantiacorum, now Canterbury. Kantia clan people are probably descendants of Cantiaci or Cantii tribes.
In Mahavansa
Kantaka-cetiya is a Buddhist Vihara mentioned in Mahavansa/Chapter 16
In Mahabharata
Shalya Parva, Mahabharata/Book IX Chapter 45 provides List of the mothers who became the companions when Skanda was installed. Kantakini (कण्टकिनी) is mentioned in verse (IX.45.16).[2]
See also
References
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.502
- ↑ मनॊजवा कण्टकिनी परघसा पूतना तदा, खशया चुर्व्युटिर वामा क्रॊशनाथ तडित प्रभा (IX.45.16)