Brahmanwada
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Brahmanwada (ब्राहमणवाडा) is a village in Karanja tahsil of Wardha district in the Maharashtra.
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Location
Brahmanwada is a small Village/hamlet in Karanja Taluka in Wardha District of Maharashtra State, India. It comes under Brahmanwada Panchayath. It belongs to Vidarbha region . It belongs to Nagpur Division . It is located 55 KM towards North from District head quarters Wardha. Brahmanwada is surrounded by Arvi Taluka towards South , Ashti Taluka towards west , Katol Taluka towards East , Narkhed Taluka towards North.[1]
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History
Siwani Plates of 18th year of Pravarasena II [2]record the grant, by Pravarasena II, of the village Brahmapūraka (ब्रह्मपूरक) to the Brahmana Devaśarmāchārya of the Maudgalya gotra. (p.28)
The localities mentioned in the present plates remained unidentified for a long time. Fleet suggested the identification of only one of them, viz., Kollapuraka which he thought was possibly identical with ‘ the modern Kolapoor (कोलापूर) of the map, twenty-one miles south of Ilichpur. This is incorrect; for, the real name of the place is Kholapur (खोलापुर) and it was founded by Kholeshvara (खोलेश्वर), a well-known general of the great Yadava king Sihghana, who named it after himself and granted it as an agrahāra to Brahmanas2. Again, none of the other villages can be identified in the vicinity of Kholapur. While editing the Patna Museum plate of Pravarasena II, Dr. Altekar suggested that Brahmapuraka (ब्रह्मपूरक) named in it to define the boundary of the donated village Shriparnaka (श्रीपर्कणका) was identical with the village of the same name granted by the present plates. He identified it with Brahmanwada (ब्राहमणवाडा) near Achalpur3. This identification also is open to the same objection; for, none of the other villages can be identified in the vicinity of Brahmanwada.(p.29)