Kolapur
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Kolapur (कोलापुर) is a historical village in Maharashtra. It is located about 34 kms south of Elichpur.
Variants
- Kolapura (कोलापुर) (बरार, महा.) (AS, p.238)
- Kollapûraka (कोल्लपुरक)
- Kollahapuraka (कोल्लहपुरक) (AS, p.238)
- Kollahapura (कोल्लहपुर) = Kolapura (कोलापुर) (p.239)
Origin
History
Siwani Plates of 18th year of Pravarasena II [1]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 (श्रीपर्णका) 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)
2 Cf. खोल्लपूराभिधं चक्रे योग्रहारमनुत्तमम् । तीरे पयोप्ण्या विपुलं तथान्यद्धास्तिनापुरम् G. H. Khare, Sources of the Mediaeval History of the Deccan, p. 64
3 JBORS Vol. XIV, p. 472.
कोलापुर
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[2] ने लेख किया है ...कोलापुर (बरार) (AS, p.238), महाराष्ट्र राज्य में स्थित एक ग्राम है। यह एलिचपुर से 21 मील (लगभग 33.6 कि.मी.) की दूरी पर दक्षिण दिशा में है। फ़्लीट के मतानुसार यह ग्राम प्राचीन 'कोल्लहपुरक' है, जिसका उल्लेख वाकाटक नरेश प्रवरसेन द्वितीय (c.400 - 415) के सिउनी से प्राप्त ताम्र-दानपट्ट में है।