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

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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