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Mahakoshal or Mahakaushal is a region of central India. Mahakoshal lies in the upper or eastern reaches of the Narmada River valley in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur is the largest city in the region. Nimar region lies to the west, in the lower reaches of the Narmada valley. Mahakoshal is now predominantly a Hindi -speaking area ...
The inscription was published by B. C. Jain in 1977. It was subsequently listed by Madan Mohan Upadhyaya in his book Inscriptions of Mahakoshal. The inscription is of considerable importance for the history of the Gupta Empire, because it is the last known record of the later Gupta king Budhagupta.
House of Kalachuri–Ratnapura. The Kalachuri dynasty, also known as Kalachuris of Malwa [2] or Mahismati, or the Early Kalachuris, was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Malwa between 6th and 7th centuries. The territory ruled by them included parts of present-day Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Their capital was located at Mahishmati.
The Kalachuris of Ratnapura were a central Indian dynasty during 11th and 12th centuries. They ruled parts of present-day Chhattisgarh from their capital at Ratnapura (modern Ratanpur in Bilaspur district ). They were an offshoot of the Kalachuris of Tripuri, and ruled as vassals of the parent dynasty for many years.
The record is listed also in Madan Mohan Upadhyay, Inscriptions of Mahakoshal, no. 2: 10. Description and contents. The inscription is in the Sanskrit language. The inscription records how mahārāja Jayanātha divided a village named Kalabhikuṇḍaka into a sixty shares and donated these to twenty-five different people.
According to these inscriptions, the earliest king of the dynasty was Oghadeva. He was succeeded by Kumaradeva, Jayasvamin, and Vyaghra. Jayanatha, the dynasty's earliest king attested by his own inscriptions, was a son of king Vyaghra and queen Ajjhitadevi. Jayanatha was succeeded by Sharvanatha, who was his son from queen Murundasvamini.
Chronology. The Minor Rock Edict were written quite early in the reign of Ashoka, from the 11th year of his reign at the earliest (according to his own inscription, "two and a half years after becoming a secular Buddhist", i.e. two and a half years at least after the Kalinga conquest of the eighth year of his reign, which is the starting point for his gradual conversion to Buddhism).
A childless Kurukh couple found a gourd by their rice field and started to eat it, but it begged them to cut it open gently. Inside the gourd was a crab, whom the couple decided to adopt. The woman tied a basket to her belly, pretended to be pregnant, and then claimed to have given birth to the crab. In time, the couple married him off, but his ...