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

294 APPENDIX I. India between the countries of Cola and Kāñchī, may be identified with the Daṇ- ḍaka of Rājaśekhara. 85. Dardura... ...Kālidāsa mentions in his Raghuvaṁśa that both the mountains of Malaya and Dardura are situated in close proximity in the sou- thern-most part of India near Tāmraparṇī. (IV. 50-51). Mount Dardura, thus, can be with little difficulty identified with the Nilgiris in the Madras Presidency. But, since Rājaśekhara locates the Dardura hills in the eastern India, it ought to be identi- fied with the Deogarh peak in the eastern part of the Vindhyas. 86. Das'apura ...Mandasor in Malwa. It is locally known as Dasore from which the Dasora Brahmins derive their names. 87. Dās'eraka ...Malwa. 88. Devasabhā ...Rājaśekhara locates Devasabhā in the wes- tern India and from this point onwards, the whole of the western part of India is consi- dered by him to be the पश्चाद्देश. Devasabhā is also the name of a mountain in the western India, and as such this may be identified with the mountainous parts of either the Dewas state or Udaipur where the Dhebar lake is situated. The rivers Sarasvatī and Sabarmati rise from these parts near Udaipur and flow through the western India. Kauṭilya in his Arthaśāstra (p. 78) men- tions a variety of sandal as दैवसभेय. By this, he very probably means either the hills or the country of the same name देवसभा mentioned by Rājaśekhara where ex- cellent sandal wood may be obtained. 89. Devikā ... ...It is a river in the northern India, and