ब्राह्मस्फुटसिद्धान्त (ब्रह्मगुप्त - शून्य, कुट्टक, बीजगणित एवं सम्पूर्ण २१ अध्याय सान्वय सटीक)

A NOTE ON BHILLAMĀLA 49
A Note on Bhillamāla
It is said that Brahmagupta completed his Brāhmasphuṭa-
siddhānta in Śaka 550, and he has come to be known as Bhilla-
mālakācārya or a teacher residing in "Bhillamālaka." In this
connection, therefore, it would be interesting to reproduce a note
on Bhillamāla from G. Bhūler's article on Gurjara Inscriptions,
No. III, published in the Indian Antiquary, July 1888, vol. 17, p.
192 :
With a single exception all the complete inscriptions call
the princes enumerated above, scions of the Gurjara race; and
Khe I. and II. highly extol the greatness and wide extent of this
family. Na. alone names the Mahārāja Karṇa as their ancestor.
With respect to this personage it is for the present impossible to
say whether the famous hero of the Mahābhārata may be meant,
or some real historical king. But the name Gurjara makes it
evident that this dynasty belonged to the great tribe which is
still found in Northern and Western India and after which two
provinces, one in the Bombay Presidency and one in the Pañjāba,
have been named. The Gurjaras or Gūjars are at present pretty
numerous in the western Himālaya, in the Pañjāba and in Eastern
Rājputānā. In Kachh and Gujarāt their number is much smal-
ler. It would, therefore, seem that they came into Western
India from the north. Their immigration must have taken place
in early times, about the beginning of our era or shortly after-
wards. In Western India they founded, besides the kingdom of
Broach, another larger state which lay some hundred miles
further north. Hiuen Tsiang mentions in his travels¹ the
kingdom of Kiu-che-lo and its capital Pi-lo-mi-lo. It has been
long known that the former word corresponds to Gurjara.
But the name of the town has been incorrectly connected
by the French scholars with Bālmer in the Jēsalmīr territory, and
this ident ification has been accepted in Mr. Beal's new transla-
tion of Siyuki. As I have stated already formerly² following
Colonel. J. Watson, Pilomilo corresponds exactly to Bhillamāla

1. Beal, Siyuki, Vol. II, p. 269f. Hiuen Tsiang assigns to the nor-
   thern Gurjara State an extent about double of that given for the kingdom of
   Broach.
2. Ante, Vol. VI. P. 63.