Assapura
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Assapura (अस्सपुर) was an ancient city in Chedi Kingdom founded by one of the five sons of Chedi King Uparichara.
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Google Scholar Reshma Rai[1] 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.
अस्सपुर
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[2] ने लेख किया है ...अस्सपुर (AS, p.55) चेतिय-जातक के अनुसार चेदि प्रदेश का एक नगर जिसकी स्थापना उपचर नरेश के पुत्र ने की थी।
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[3] ने लेख किया है ... चेतिय जातक (कावेल सं 422) में चेदि की राजधानी सोत्थीवतीनगर कही गई है जो श्री नं0 ला. डे के मत में |शुक्तिमती ही है[4] इस जातक में चेदिनरेश उपचर के पांच पुत्रों द्वारा हत्थिपुर, अस्सपुर, सीहपुर, उत्तर पांचाल और दद्दरपुर नामक नगरों के बसाए जाने का उल्लेख है। महाभारत [आशवमेधिक0 / 83,2 ] में शुक्तिमती को शुक्तिसाह्वय भी कहा गया है।
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- ↑ Brief Notes on the Chedi territory
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.55
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.342-43
- ↑ ज्याग्रेफिकल डिक्शनरी / पृ0 7