Kuta
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.) |
Kuta (कूट) is a place name mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. It is also mentioned in Mahabharata.
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Variants of name
Mention by Panini
Kuta (कूट) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi under Kumudadi (कुमुदादि) (4.2.80.17) group. [1]
Kuta (कूट) is a place name mentioned by Panini under Sankashadi (संकाशादि) (4.2.80.10) group. [2]
Kuta (कूट) is name of a place mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi under Krishashvadi (कृशाश्वादि) (4.2.80.2) group. [3]
History
Jat History
Sir H. M. Elliot mentions a a tribe of Kottæ, a country of Kutaïs, a city of Kuta, a city of Kutaia.[4]
Alexander Cunningham[5] writes that...According to Abu Rihan, and his copyist, Eashid-ud-din, Malya and Kutal (or Kunak) were two distinct provinces, the latter being to the south of the former, and the last, or most southerly district of India. It seems probable therefore, that Malyakuta is a compound name, formed by joining the names of two contiguous districts. Thus, Malya would answer to the district of Pandya, with its capital of Madura, and Kuta, or Kutal, to Travancore, with its capital of Kochin, the Kottiara of Ptolemy.
Jat clans
In Mahabharata
Kutta (कुट्ट) province is mentioned in Mahabharata (VI.10.47). [6]
References
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.503
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.507
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.503
- ↑ The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians/Note (C).- Ethnological, Sir H. M. Elliot, Edited by John Dowson, 1867, Volume Ip.517
- ↑ The Ancient Geography of India/Southern India, p.551
- ↑ उपावृश्चानुपावृश्च सुराष्ट्राः केकयास तदा, कुट्टापरान्ता दवैधेयाः काक्षाः सामुद्र निष्कुटाः (VI.10.47)