Khadatapara

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Khadatapara (खादातपार) was a vishaya or province of Guptas mentioned in Gupta Inscriptions.

Variants

• Khadatapara (खादातपार) (AS, p.256)

Jat clans

• Khadaw

History

Tej Ram Sharma mentions 2. Khad(ta)para¹⁰³ खाद(टा)पार in (No. 29, L. 7) : Dhanaidaha Copper-plate Inscription (of the time of Kumaragupta I) Gupta Year 113 (=A.D. 432)....

The inscription came from a place Dhanaidaha in the Katore subdivision of the Rajashahi district (in Pundravardhana). ¹⁰³

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216 Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

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So this visaya may be assigned to the Pundravardhana bhukti. The name of the district cannot be read with certainty. Sen ¹⁰⁵ suggests three readings : Maha-Khushapara, Khada(ta) para, or Khusaspara. Banerji gives the reading 'Maha-khusapara. ¹⁰⁶

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103. विज्ञापिता इह खादा (टा) पार-विषये...

104. B.C. Sen, Some Historical Aspects of the Inscriptions of Bengal, p. 110.

105. Ibid.

106. महाखुषापर D.C. Sircar, Select Inscriptions. p. 288, f.n. 5.

खादातपार

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर ने लेख किया है ...खादातपार (AS, p.256) गुप्तसाम्राज्य का एक विषय या प्रदेश जिसका उल्लेख गुप्त अभिलेखों में है.