Manahali
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Manahali (मनहाली) village is located in Tapan Tehsil of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal, India.
Variants
Location
It is situated 5.5km away from sub-district headquarter Tapan. Balurghat is the district headquarter of Manahali village. Village code of Manahali village is 311423. Gangarampur is nearest town to Manahali which is approximately 10km away. [1]
History
Four inscriptions of Madanapāla (The Pālas of Bengal) have been discovered up to date, of which three are votive inscriptions, incised on the pedestals of images, while the remaining one is on a copper-plate. The earliest inscription is the "Manahali" Grant, Inscriptions, which records the grant of a village, perhaps named Kāṣṭhagiri, in the Koṭīvarṣa-Viṣaya of the Pauṇḍravardhana Bhukti, to a Brāhmaṇa named Vaṭeśvarasvāmi-śarmman, an inhabitant of Campāhiṭṭi, as dakṣiṇā for having read the Mahābhārata to the great queen (Paṭṭa-Mahādevī) Citramatikā. [2]
Madanapāladeva seems to have continued to hold the northern part of Varendra, as his Manahali Grant was issued in the 8th year of his reign from the royal city of Rāmāvatī. [3]
In the inscriptions of Bengal the name Pundravardhana was changed into Paundravardhana in the early part of the 12th century, when it occurs first in the Manahali grant of Madanapala and remained in use till the end of the Sena rule.[4]
मनहाली, प.बंगाल
मनहाली, प.बंगाल, (AS, p.710): बंगाल के पाल वंश के नरेश मदन पाल का एक ताम्रदानपट्ट इस स्थान से प्राप्त हुआ है. [5]
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References
- ↑ https://villageinfo.in/west-bengal/dakshin-dinajpur/tapan/manahali.html
- ↑ The Pālas of Bengal by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay Chapter VI, p.104
- ↑ The Pālas of Bengal by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay Chapter VI, p.103
- ↑ [[Tej Ram Sharma]]: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions/Place-Names and their Suffixes,p.213
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.710