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