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On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"

By P. C. Bagchi

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 741–742English

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  • “According to the Nepalese Vaméivalis the ancient name of Kit-mandu was Kantipura.”
  • “The name Kintipura was also 1 use at that period 85 15 evident from the colophons of mss.”

Works cited in this article

  1. S. Lévi, Le Nepal, 1, pp. 52-54.
  2. Nepile bahupithamanditadive Kantipuri rijate; 9. 196 Piijakalpalatd {copied in 1669 A.D.)~“Kiantapurir 7/૭ Pratipamaller Guru Niriyans Bhahuker puthi” ; 9. 233 Pitrbhakti Taranginl (copied in 1674 A.D)}—-Kiantipur nagare likhitassa,

Discussed in this article

People

  • Kalpavrksa
  • Gunakimadsva
  • Matsyendranitha
  • Saivicirya Tejabrahma
  • Laksmi-Narasimhamalla

Places

  • Kiatmandu
  • Kastamandapa
  • Kiantipura

Texts & works

  • Laksahomavidhi
  • Parthivircana Cudamani
  • Piijakalpalatd
  • Pitrbhakti Taranginl

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. BagchiCurrent article743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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