काव्यमीमांसा (महाकवि राजशेखर - कवि-रहस्य एवं देश-विभाग सटीक)

290 APPENDIX I. the side of a village called Tryambak, twenty miles away from Nasik; the river flows eastward to the bay of Bengal. 60. Govardhana ...Mount Govardhana eighteen miles from Bṛndāvana in the district of Mathura. 61. Gauḍa ... ...According to Rājaśekhara, the Gauḍas are a people inhabiting the whole tract of country lying between Benares and the bay of Bengal. According to him the word Gauḍa is not the name of any par- ticular country. He describes the costume of the Gauḍa ladies and mentions the fondness of the Gauḍas for the Sanskrit language. Mr. N. L. Dey, however, thinks that the whole of Bengal is known as the Gauḍa country with its capital at Gauḍ, the ruins of which have been dis- covered near Malda in Bengal at a distance of about ten miles. He also thinks that the kings of the Pāla and Sena dynasties made this city of Gauḍ their capital on several occasions. This city was also known as Lakṣmaṇāvatī or Lakhnauti after the name of King Lakṣmaṇasena of the Sena dynasty of Bengal. 62. Cakora ... ...A mountain in the eastern India according to the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. It may be identi- fied as Caraṇādri or Cunar, the hill-fort in the district of Mirzapur, which was built by the Pāla Kings. 63. Cakravartikṣetra Rājaśekhara designates the whole country of India from Cape Comorin in the south to the Bindusaras in the Himālayas in the north, as the Cakravartikṣetra. This land consists of 1000 Yojanas. One who con- quers and rules over the whole of this land is called a Cakravartin. This seems to be the same as the Kumārīdvīpa, one of the