Sahyādrikhaṇḍa or Sahyadri Khand, written in Sanskrit, and is considered as part of Skandapurāṇa.[1][2] One of its interpolated versions from 1700CE contains the legend of the origin of the Brahmin identities like Chitpavan Brahmins and Saraswat Brahmins while deliberately slandering authentic Brahmin communities like Karhade Brahmins.[3]
The Sahyadri-khanda includes disparate texts that date from 5th to 13th centuries, and have been organized as part of a single text relatively recently.[4][5]
There is an elaborate description about the creation of Paraśurāma kṣetra. In one place the land is stated to have been created by Paraśurāma by shooting an arrow,[6] while in another place the land is created by throwing an axe. Experts in the field of Archaeology feel that the place where Parashurama's arrow landed is believed to be the present day Goa.[6] The Kannaḍa version contains a brief chapter called as Grāmapaddhati which describes Brāhmaṇa family names and villages, contradicting the original text that describes narrations and stories of different types of fallen Brāhmaṇas.[1] According to Y.C.Bhānumati the Kannaḍa version has no similarities with Sanskrit Sahyādrikhaṇḍa.[citation needed][dubious – discuss][7] Many other versions are found in Marāṭhī, Hindi and English.
Chapters
Sanskrit Sahyādrikhaṇḍa contains following chapters, most of the which vary from version to version as it is a part of Skandapurāṇa.
In this article the original Sanskrit names of the chapters have been omitted.
The origin of Chitpāvana Brāhmaṇas (Sanskrit Version of Sahyādrikhaṇḍa and in copies of same Khaṇḍa found in South India, do not have any reference about Chitpāvanas)[1]
The origin of different groups of Brāhmaṇas of Dakṣiṇa
The consideration of Brāhmaṇas
In the praise of land grants
Demarcation of the villages
The praise composed by Bhārgava
Demarcation of inferior villages
Title not given-related to thirty-two villages
Story of fallen villages
Three chapters related to demarcation of fallen villages
Title not specified-related to the river Sitā
The story of Mithunāhara Brāhmaṇas
The story of fallen village
The fallen village
The glory of the Kṣetra
The glory of Mahālingeśa
References
^ abcdeRao, Nagendra. "The Sahyādri khaṇḍa". Brahmanas of South India. pp. 149–161.
^Shastri, P. (1995) Introduction to the Puranas, New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pp.118-20
^da Cunha, J. Gerson (1877). The Sahyâdri-khaṇḍa of the Skanda purâṃa : a mythological, historical, and geographical account of western India; first edition of the Sanskrit texts with various readings. Bombay: Thacker, Vining, & Co.
^Alexander Henn (2014). Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa. Indiana University Press. p. 87. ISBN978-0-253-01300-2.
^D. R. Amladi (1961). Tuḷajāpūr Bhavānī. Maharashtra State. p. 9. OCLC 7037412. But it is very well known that the Sahyadri Khanda is of recent date and an interpolation and as such has little historical importance.
^ abcDa Cunha, J. Gerson (1877). "Sahyādrikhaṇḍa". Skandapurāṇantargata. pp. 8, 325–326, 331.
^Y.C.Bhānumati, ed. (1984). Sahyādrikhaṇḍa (in Kannada). Mysore.
Further reading
Reflections on the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa's Uttarārdha
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