Chedi Chedis Chedies : ancient kingdom between the Yamuna & the Narmada; its most infamous king was Shishupāla, a cousin of Sri Krishna. Later Chedi was one of the mahā-janapadas mentioned in early Buddhist texts.
... certain brahmins saved from the massacre — men who had read the Vedas — she travelled, beautiful and sad like the moon crescent in autumn, and soon one evening she arrived in the capital of the King of Chedis, the just Subahu. Clad with half a garment she entered the great city. She was mad with grief, emaciated and weak, her hair was loose, and she was unwashed. The inhabitants of... her walking like a mad woman. At that time village children saw her enter the capital and followed her with curiosity Surrounded by them she approached the royal palace. The queen mother of the Chedis was touched by the great beauty and nobility of Damayanti. She advised her daughter, Sunanda, to take this lady as her companion. Sunanda looked at Damayanti and loved her instantly. Damayanti made... woods. She explained who she was and that she was searching for her husband the king of Naishadas. The leader of the merchants told her that their caravan was going to the lands of Subahu, King of the Chedis, and that if she wished, they could take her along. The merchants and the queen journeyed several days together until they came to a large lake. They halted and camped close to its waters. The same ...
... preeminence and the Kurus were a great practical, warlike, ritualistic, juristic race of the Roman type, with little of the speculative temper or moral enthusiasm of the eastern Coshalas, Videhas, Kashis, Chedis. The West of India has always been noted for its practical, soldierly, commercial bent of mind in comparison with the imaginative and idealistic Eastern races and the scholastic, logical and metaphysical ...
... this country have preserved their basic temperaments with a marvellous conservative power; modified & recombined they have been in no case radically altered. Bengal colonised from the west by the Chedies & Haihayas & from the north by Coshalas & Magadhans, contains at present the most gentle, sensitive and emotional of the Indian races, also the most anarchic, self-willed, averse to control and in ...
... and Kauśāmbī, he mentions three eras by which they might be dated: the Chedi Era of 248 A.D., the Gupta of 320 and the Śaka of 78. Thus the datings would vary by (320-248=)72, (248-78=)170 or (320-79=)242 years. Altekar informs us: "Messrs N. G. Majumdar and Krishna Deva think it very probable that the era used is the Chedi era... (Epigraphia Indica XXIV, 146 and 253); Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni... of the constellation Great Bear. The Seven Rishis are supposed to make a cycle of 2700 years by a stay of 100 1.Pargiter, op. cit., p. 58. 2. Ibid. 3."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", The Age of Imperial Unity, edited by R.C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1951), fn. continued to p. 196 from p. 195. Page 6 years in each of the... the era used is the Śaka Era (Archaeological Survey of India 1911-12, p. 417; E. I. XXIII, 247; Journal of the Numismatic Society of India II, 95 ff). The most cogent argument in favour of the Chedi or the Gupta Era is palaeographical; there is no doubt that the characters of the Maghā inscriptions are almost the Gupta characters. The argument however is not a convincing one; for many of the Gupta ...
... 281, 309 Chashtana. 462, 463, 465, 468, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482 Chashtanas. 603-4 Chatterji.S. K..279 Chattopadhyaya, S., 251, 389 Chavannes, 505 Chedi Era (248 AD). 30 Chedis (coinage), 440 Chhabra, Dr., 539 Chhattisgarh, 520 Chi-mi-kia-po-mo (Sirimeghavanna), 33, 36, 41, 43, 227 China, 548; Great Wall of, 510-11 Chinese... 1976) Sircar, D. C., "The Yavanas", "The Śakas and the Pahlavas", "The Kushānas, "Northern India after the Kushānas" , "The Śaka Satraps of Western India", "The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", "The Deccan after the Sātavāhanas", "Vaishnavism", The Age of Imperial Unity , edited by R. C. Majumdar and A. D. Pusalker (Bhāratīya Vidyā Bhavan, Bombay, 1953) "Deccan in the Gupta ...
... the Āndhra country without men- 1.Kharavela's Hathigumpha Inscription also testifies to the possession of Kalinga by "a Nanda king" (ibid., p. 216). 2.Sircar, "The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 194. Page 210 tioning the conquest in his edicts or else Megasthenes and Pliny were talking of a period quite other than that of Aśoka's grandfather ...
... next challenge is the Hāthigumphā Inscription of the Chedi king Khāravela, ruler of Kalinga. This inscription is dated either to the early part of the 2nd century B.C. or to the later part of the 1st century B.C. In both cases, it is said to refer to a Sātakarni whom Khāravela defied in his 2nd regnal year. It is also said to mention the Chedi monarch's enlarging in his 5th regnal year a canal excavated... Orissa Research Society, XVI, pp. 18-60 referred to by Rama Rao. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. , pp. 26-27. Also "Genealogy", The Age of Imperial Unity, pp. 706-07. 6."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis" ; The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 198, with fn. 4. 7.Op. cit., p. 5. Page 337 times Magadha..." - and V. Smith 1 justified in granting the possibility that "the Āndhras may... History..., pp. 302-03. Page 439 that was thus introduced on the reverse, was destined to figure on the gold coinage for more than a millennium; we find her not only on the coins of the Chedis and Gāhadavālas, but also on some coins of Mahmudbin Sam. "The Kushāna prototype, king offering incense at the altar, lingered on for a few decades, but side by side with it, the Gupta mint masters ...
... both these forces were much stronger in their action than they have usually been in Europe. The Aryan nations may be divided into three distinct groups, the Eastern of whom the Coshalas, Magadhas, Chedies, Videhas & Haihayas were the chief; the Central among whom the Kurus, Panchalas & Bhojas were the most considerable; and the Western & Southern of whom there were many, small, & rude but yet warlike... military prestige & political force, the Panchalas under Drupada & his sons, the Bhojas under Bhishmuc & his brother Acrity who is described as equalling Parshurama in military skill & courage, the Chedies under the hero & great captain Shishupala, the Magadhas, built into a strong nation by Brihodruth; even distant Bengal under the Poundrian Vasudave and distant Sindhu under [Vriddhakshatra] and his... something more; personal enmities [counted] for something as in the feud cherished by the Trigartas against Arjouna. The Madras disregarded matrimonial ties when they sided with Duryodhan; the Magadhas & Chedies put aside the memory of personal wrongs when they espoused the cause of Yudhisthere. I believe the explanation we must gather from the hints of the Mahabharata is this, that the nations were divided ...
... the founder of the Era of 78 A.D. No Sātavāhana whose coins or epigraphs have been found used any 1.Sircar, "Religion and Philosophy", The Age..., p. 438. 2."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", ibid., p. 199. 3. Ibid. Page 583 era: everyone reckoned only in his regnal years. Further, what about Vediśri, obviously by his precedence of Śaktiśri the elder son of... of his family had lost to the Śaka Nahapāna. 5 Still earlier the king Sātakarni I is said to have exercised sway over wide regions and 1. Op. cit., p. 309. 2."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 200. 3. Ibid., p. 207. 4. Ibid., p. 201. 5. Ibid., p. 200. Page 571 probably his immediate predecessors to have done the same. ...
... spoked), 160-61 war-chariot, 234, 251-3 Chattopadhyaya, DebipRasād, 187-9, 192-3, 197 Chattopadhyaya, K.C., 269, 288, 335, 376-9, 401 Chaudhuri, Nirad, Continent of Circe, 166 Chedi, 239 Chilas, 282 China, 261, 321, 323 Chhandogya Upanishad, 236 Clark, Prof. J. Desmond, 220 Cleator, P.E., Lost Languages, 171 fn. Constantini, 244 copper ...
... Andrew Irvine disappeared as they climbed together towards the top. This time there were two camps, not one, above the Col, and the higher, at 26,800 feet, was carried up by the three Sherpas, Lhakpa Chedi, Norbu Yishay, and Semchunbi. From here, before Mallory and Irvine were lost, Colonel E.F. Norton and Dr. T.H. Somervell made a fine attempt, in which Norton reached more than 28,000 feet. This remained ...
... sets of facing pages. We start with p. 77 and go up col. 1 from Sahadeva to Brihadratha who has the caption MAGADHA above him. From him we pass to col. 2 which carries his father Vasu Chaidya of the CHEDI line. We continue there up to Sudhanvan under the caption PAURA-VAS, the traditional "Lunar Line". He is one of the 3 sons of Kuru whose name occurs in col. 6 of p. 76. From here we follow the continuation ...
... culture with "advanced economy". This conclusion goes against our assumed view of the Mahabharata War Period, when there were several states, each with a specific name, such as Kuru, Panchala, Chedi, Kekaya, Sindhu-Sauvira, Magadha, etc., each with its own capital city. So, if we regard the Painted Grey Ware 81. Op. cit., pp. 33-34. 82. Op. cit., p. 95. Page 239 ...
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