Suvarnasikata
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Suvarnasikata (सुवर्णसिकता) is name of a river of Saurashtra (Gujarat) mentioned in the Junagarh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman. Suvarnasikata (सुवर्णसिकता) is also the name of a river mentioned in the Gupta inscription No. 14. The river Sikatā takes its source from the mountain Raivataka. This Sikatā or Suvarṇasikatā is to be identified with modern Soṇarekhā.
Variants
- Suvarnasikata (सुवर्णसिकता) (AS, p.980)
- Svarnasikata (स्वर्णसिकता) = Suvarnasikata सुवर्णसिकता (AS, p.1004)
- Suvarna-sikata (सुवर्णसिकता)
- Suvarnasikta (सुवर्णसिक्ता)
- Soṇarekhā
History
Tej Ram Sharma[1] mentions River Sikata (सिकता) (Junagarh Rock Inscription of Skandagupta Gupta Years 136, 137 and 138 (=A.D. 455, 456 and 457), L. 16) : The river Sikata takes its source from the mountain Raivataka. It is the same as Suvarna-sikata mentioned in the Junagarh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman. [2] This Sikata or Suvarnasikata is to be identified with modern Sonarekha. [3] The name
296 Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions
Suvannareha (Suvarnarekha) is also met with in Vividhatirthakalpa. [4] Thus the first part of the river's name has remained unchanged for about two thousand years. The second part has been replaced by a new one. The exact derivative as suggested by Chatterji will be a form like Sonasita or Sonasi. [5] The river was named Suvarnasikata because its sand contains particles of gold.[6]
Various definitions
Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptions
Suvarṇasikatā (सुवर्णसिकता) or Suvarṇasiktā is the name of a river found in India.—Siktāvilāsinī, i.e., the river “beautiful with sandy stretches” is identified with Suvarṇasiktā, mentioned in the Junagadh Inscription of Rudradāman. Dr. Bhagvanlal Indraji identifies Suvarṇasiktā with Sonrekhā. The river originated from the Raivataka mountain.
Source: archive.org: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions
Suvarṇasikatā (सुवर्णसिकता) is the name of a river mentioned in the Gupta inscription No. 14. The Gupta empire (r. 3rd-century CE), founded by Śrī Gupta, covered much of ancient India and embraced the Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The river Sikatā takes its source from the mountain Raivataka. It is the same as Suvarṇasikatā mentioned in the Junāgaṛh Rock Inscription of Rudradāman.
This Sikatā or Suvarṇasikatā is to be identified with modern Soṇarekhā. The name Suvaṇṇarehā (Suvarṇarekhā) is also met with in Vividhatīrthakalpa. Thus the first part of the river's name has remained unchanged for about two thousand years. The second part has been replaced by a new one. The exact derivative as suggested by Chatterji will be a form like Sonasītā or Sonasī. The river was named Suvarṇasikatā because its sand contains particles of gold.
Reference - https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/suvarnasikata
Jat History
Jat clans
In Mahabharata
सुवर्णसिकता
सुवर्णसिकता (AS, p.980): सौराष्ट्र की नदी जिसका वर्णन पलाशिनी के साथ रुद्रदामन् के गिरनार अभिलेख में है--'सुवर्णसिकतापलाशिनीप्रभृतीनां नदीनामति मात्रोदृवृत्तैर्वेगै'. इसका अभिज्ञान सुवर्णरेखा या वर्तमान सोनरेखा से किया गया है जो जूनागढ़ [p.981] के निकट बहती है. (पलाशिनी वर्तमान पलासियां है). सुवर्णरेखा का उल्लेख गिरनार स्थित स्कंदगुप्त के अभिलेख में भी है. मंडलीक-काव्य में भी सुवर्णसिकता को सुवर्णरेखा कहा गया है. (नागरी प्रचारिणी पत्रिका, भाग-3, पृ. 336)[7]
सुवर्णरेखा
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[8] ने लेख किया है ... सुवर्णरेखा (AS, p.980): 1. जिला मयूरभंज उड़ीसा, मयूरभंज के उत्तरी भाग में बहने वाली एक नदी जिस के निकट बंगाल के सेन राजाओं की प्रथम राजधानी काशीपुरीबसी हुई थी. (देखें काशीपुरी)
2. जूनागढ़ (गुजरात) के निकट प्रवाहित होने वाली नदी; वर्तमान सोन रेखा. सुवर्णरेखा (देखें सुवर्णसिक्ता) और पलाशिनी (वर्तमान पलाशियों) का उल्लेख गिरनार के चट्टान पर अंकित सम्राट स्कन्दगुप्त के प्रसिद्ध अभिलेख में है. इस वर्णन के अनुसार इन दोनों नदियों का पानी रोककर सिंचाई के लिए झील बनाई गई थी. 453 ई. में उसका बांध घोर वर्षा के कारण टूट गया और तब स्कंद गुप्त के अधीन सौराष्ट्र के शासक चक्रपालित ने इसका जीर्णोद्धार करवाया था.
References
- ↑ Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions/Names of the Rivers and the Mountains,p. 295-296
- ↑ Select Inscriptions by D. C. Sircar. p. 176.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 313, f.n.l : Selections From Sanskrit Inscriptions by D. B. Diskalkar Vol. I, Pt. II, p.8.
- ↑ Vividhatlrthakalpa p. 10 : तं जहा-उग्गसेणगढ़ं ति वा, खंगारागढ़ं ति वा । जुण्ण-डुग्गं ति वा । उत्तरदिशाए विसालथम्भसाला-सोहियो दसदसार मंडवो गिरिदुवारे य पंचमो हरी दामोअरो सुवण्णरेहा-नईपारे वट्टह ।
- ↑ Studies in the Historical and Cultural Geography and Ethnography of Gujarat by H. D. Sankalia. p. 51 : also see f.n.l.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 51, f.n. 2. : Mirati. Ahmadi, Supplement, 205, takes
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.980-981
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.980