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

APPENDIX I. 289
which comprises the districts of Coimbatore
and Salem. The name Gāṅga or Koṅgu
seems to have been derived from the name
of the dynasty of the Western Gāṅgas
who ruled over the south of Mysore with
Salem, Coimbatore, the Nilgiris and parts
of Malabar, from the 2nd to the 9th
century A. D. Evidently, therefore, it
should not be identified, as some scholars
have done, with the Rāḍha country and
Saptagrāma which form part of South
Bengal and which is also known as Gāṅge
or Gāṅga according to Ptolemy and Hari-
hara and Belur inscriptions (Rice's Mysore
Inscriptions pp. 70,222). The Kaliṅga
country which was also ruled over by the
Eastern Gāṅga dynasty during the 7th
century A. D. cannot be taken to re-
present the Gāṅga country mentioned here
by Rājaśekhara, as he had already included
Kaliṅga, or the districts of Ganjam and
Vizag. amongst the eastern countries
of India.
57. Gādhipura ...According to the Bālarāmāyaṇa, (X 88)
Gādhipura is another name of the city
of Kānauj, while Kāvyamīmāṁsā takes it
to be a suburb of Kanauj, and as situated
on the northern side of the city. (see
p. 243).
58. Girinagara ...Girnar. Rājaśekhara places this hill in
the western India, and this has been
identified with the well-known Girnar hills
situated at a small distance from the town
of Junagadh in Kathiawar. This is now
presumed to be the Raivatakagiri of the
Purāṇas.
59. Godāvarī ...A river in South India. Its source has
been traced to the Brahmagiri situated on
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