Shuktimati
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Suktimati (शुक्तिमती) was the capital city of the Chedi Kingdom in India. It lay on the banks of the Shuktimati River flowing through Chedi. Shuktimati River has been identified with Ken River.
Variants
- Shuktimati शुक्तिमती (AS, p.903)
- Shuktimati River (शुक्तिमती नदी) (AS, p.903)
- Suktimati सूक्तिमति = shuktimati शुक्तिमती, (AS, p.983)
- Sotthivati (सोत्थिवती) दे. Shuktimati (शुक्तिमती) (AS, p.986)
- Shuktisahvaya शुक्तिसाह्वय दे. Shuktimati (शुक्तिमती) (AS, p.904)
- Suktimati
- Sukti
History
Suktimati (Shuktimati, Sukti[1]) was the capital city of the Chedi Kingdom in India. It lay on the banks of the river Shuktimati flowing through Chedi. It was built by a Chedi king known as Uparichara Vasu. In the Mahabharata, it has been quoted that this river gave birth to twins (a boy and a girl) through its association with a mountain called Kolahala. The river then gives the twins to king Uparichara Vasu. King Vasu makes the boy the commander of his armies and marries the girl, Girika.[2]
Shuktimati is the Sanskrit form of the name; it is referred to as Sotthivati-nagara in the Pali-language Buddhist texts.[3]
The location of Suktimati has not been established with certainty. Historian Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri and F. E. Pargiter believed that it was in the vicinity of Banda, Uttar Pradesh.[4] Archaeologist Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti has proposed that Suktimati can be identified as the ruins of a large early historical city, at a place with the modern-day name Rewa, Madhya Pradesh.[5]
In Mahabharata
Shuktisahvaya (शुक्तिसाह्वय) in Mahabharata (XIV.84.2)
Aswamedha Parva, Mahabharata/Book 14 Chapter 84 mentions Arjuna's Rajasuya Ashvamedha journey. Shuktisahvaya (शुक्तिसाह्वय) is mentioned in Mahabharata (XIV.84.2). [6]....Pandu's son (Arjuna) having white steeds yoked unto his car, proceeded along the south, following the (sacrificial) steed. Turning round in course of his wanderings at will, the mighty steed came upon the beautiful city of the Chedis called after the oyster. (Shuktisahvaya).
शुक्तिमती
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर [7] ने लेख किया है ...1. शुक्तिमती (AS, p.903): महाभारत काल मे चेदि देश (बुंदेलखंड तथा जबलपुर का भूभाग) की राजधानी। इसे शुक्तिसाह्वय भी कहा गया है। (महाभारत, आश्वेमेधिक. 83,2) चेदि देश का राजा शिशुपाल था, जिसका वध श्रीकृष्ण ने युधिष्ठिर के राजसूय यज्ञ मे किया था। 'चेतियजातक' में वर्णित सोत्थिवती नगरी, जिसे 'चेदि' या 'चेतिराज्य' की राजधानी कहा गया है, शुक्तिमती का ही पाली रूप है। ऐसा जान पड़ता है कि शुक्तिमती नदी के नाम पर ही इस नगरी का नाम भी प्रसिद्व हो गया था।
2. शुक्तिमती (AS, p.904) नामक नदी (=केन): महाभारत कालीन चेदि देश की इसी नाम की राजधानी शुक्तिमती के पास बहती थी- 'पुरोपवाहिनीं तस्य नदीं शुक्तिमतीं गिरः'-- महाभारत, आदिपर्व 63,35. इस नदी को चेदिराज उपरिचर की राजधानी के पास बहती हुई बताया गया है। पार्जिटर के अनुसार शुक्तिमती नदी बाँदा, उत्तर प्रदेश के निकट बहने वाली केन नदी है। (जर्नल ऑफ एशियाटिक सोसाइटी, बंगाल,1895,पृ. 255)
शुक्तिसाह्वय
शुक्तिसाह्वय (AS, p.904): 'ततः स पुनर आवृत्य हयः कामचरॊ बली आससाद पुरीं रम्यां चेदीनां शुक्तिसाह्वयाम्' महा.आश्वमेधिक 83,2. (दे. शुक्तिमती-1)[8]
External links
References
- ↑ "Rise of the Chedis". IndiaJourney.com.
- ↑ Ganguli, Kisari Mohan (2004). The Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa. Kessinger Publishing. p. 154. ISBN 1-4191-7125-9.
- ↑ Raychaudhuri, Hem Chandra (1923), Political history of ancient India, from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty, p. 66
- ↑ Raychaudhuri, Hem Chandra (1923), Political history of ancient India, from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty, p. 66
- ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip Kumar (2000), "Mahajanapada States of Early Historic India", in Hansen, Mogens Herman (ed.), A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures: An Investigation, p. 387
- ↑ ततः स पुनर आवृत्य हयः कामचरॊ बली, आससाद पुरीं रम्यां चेदीनां शुक्तिसाह्वयाम
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.903
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.904