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

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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