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The Antiquity of Pandharpur

By Bhaskar Anand Saletore

Vol. 11 · No. 4December - 1935pp. 771–778English
Epigraphic Evidence Analysis

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  • “Pandharpur is one of the most celebrated spots 10 Mahardstra. The ahsence of any reference to thic renowned place of pilgrimage in the Ramayana and the Mahabldrate leads us to infer that in the days 'of the epics it was not reckoned 85 a lioly centre.”
  • “The assortion that Pandharpur was the same as Pupdarika, Pupdarikapuras, Pundariliaksetra, Pundurika-tirtha, Pandupura, TEpaséirama, end.the forest of Tapass, mentioned in the Makdbhdrata ગાવું in other Hindu writings, is wholly untenshle.”
  • “Indeed, thiz sacred spot, as epigraphical evidence proves, was only a palli or halli (village) 10 the first quarter of the sixth' century ઝ..10., and # continued to be हुए until the ninth century A.D.”

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  1. Brhad Naradiya Purine, Uttera, Ch. 73
  2. Caitanya Caritamria, Madhya. Ch. 9
  3. Vang Parra, S8ec. LXXXVII, p. 200 \Roy)
  4. Brkatsamhitd, XIV. ૪. 15; Bralmanda Purdne, ch. 49; પા Purina, ૦8. 45, v, 120; Rombay Gaz., I, P, I., છ. 8511; Dey, Geogrephical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieral [adia, pp. 147, 154, 161, 204. (2nd ed. 1027)
  5. Bombay 0222111227, XX, p. 423

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