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

298 APPENDIX I. cast of Benares and includes within it Assam and Burma. 110. Pṛthūdaka ...Pehoa in the Karnal district of the Punjab on the river Sarasvatī. Rājaśekhara men- tions that the Uttarāpatha or the northern India is to be considered as the country lying beyond Pṛthūdaka. Modern Pehoa is on the northern side of the Sarasvatī and is fourteen miles to the west of Thanesvar. 111. Prayāga ... ...Allahabad. This is the eastern boundary of the Madhyadeśa or Central India which is bounded by the Himālayas, the Vin- dhyas and the Vinaśana. 112. Prāgjyotiṣa ...Kāmarūpa or Kāmākhyā in Assam. Ac- cording to Kālidāsa (Raghuvaṁśa. IV. 83–84) Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa are the same. Rājaśekhara mentions Kāmarūpa as one of the mountains in the eastern India. (see Kāmarūpa). 113. Plakṣadvīpa ...One of the seven Dvīpas constituting the world. This is the first Dvīpa from the Jambū which is in the middle of the earth. 114. Barbara ... ...It is mentioned as one of the countries in the northern India. The Purāṇas also locate this country in the north or in the north- western provinces. Ptolemy and the author of the Periplus mention the Barbari and Barbarike as an emporium in India, and Cunningham identifies this with Bhambūra (see Cunningham's A. G. p. 339.) on the bank of Sindhu. The country of Barbara is said to be a famous place for sandal-wood which was known as Barbarikacandana. (Ibid. Notes, p. 695). Thus, the country of the Barbaras may be identified with the Barbari, Barbarike, or Barbaricum which is situated in the north-west province on the bank of the river Indus on its western