DISCUSSION

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF VEDIC IRZNA IN SOUTHERN by R.N. Iyengar and B.P. Radhakrishna. Jour. Geol. Soc , v.70,2007, pp 699-705.

Kamal Kant Sharrna and Ritesh Purohit, Government Post- Jawai Bandh (Pall district) town on the banks of River Jawai graduate College, - 307 001, Rajasthan, Email: sharrnasirohi@yahoo com, comment R.N. Iyengar and B.P. Radhakrishna, Bangalore, reply

The authors describe that the small town The main object of our paper was to describe the appears to retain memories of the Vedic irlna As a matter physiographic aspects of the terra~nreferred to In the of fact, the town Erinpura does not have any relationship Rig Veda as Irzna Slnce the town Erlnpura was located wlth Vedrc tlme Britlsh officer Major Downing established within the Vedic Irzna, we thought it probable that the the Erlnpura Cantonment (erstwhile S~rohistate) in 1837 memory of the Vedrc Irina was retained in the namlng of the on the banks of Jawal Rlver The name Erlnpura was glven townsh~pof Erinpura In the same way as Mt Abu has to Cantonment by Major Downing in memory of fils survived from its original vedlc name Arbuda Sharma and birthplace Erma Island (Ojha, 1912 History of Sirohi State Purohit have given an entirely different derivation whlch (Hlndi reprlnt, 1997), Rajasthan Granthagar, Jodhpur, we have no means of ver~fyingIt is far more reasonable to 428p) The Britrsh government named the nearby railway trace the root of the word to Indian mythology rather station as Erinpura road The earlier Erlnpura region IS than seek its origln from unver~fiablefictitious romantic now represented by (Siroh1 dlstrict), Sumerpur- name In Irish mythology

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