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1. Uttarakuru A sub-region to the north of mount Mamdara(3). It is situated in the Mahā videha region of Jambūdīva. It is crescent-shaped. It extends from east to west. Its breadth from north to south is 11842-2/19 yojanas. Its northern chord (jiva) from east to west measures 53000 yojanas. Its pertinent arc (dhanu-pittha) in the south is 60418-12/19 yojanas. It has (two) Jamaga(1) mountains, Ņilavamta(2) lake, Kamcapaga-pavvaya mountains, etc.? The tree of Jambusudamsaņā lies in it.3 The people living therein get mature in forty-nine days only 4 and always enjoy the best era known as Susamasusamā. 1. Jiv. 147, Jam. 87, 85, Mar. 60, Sam. 3. Jam. 90, Jiv. 151, Sth. 764. 53, Sth. 302, 197, 522, 555.
4. Sam. 49. 2. Jiv. 148–152, Jam. 88-90, BhaA. 5. Bha A. p. 897.
pp. 654-5.
Presiding deity of the Uttarakuru(1) region.
2. Uttarakuru
1. Jam. 91.
3. Uttarakuru A lake situated in the Uttarakuru(1) region.1
1. Jiv. 150, Jam. 89, Sth. 434.
4. Uttarakuru A summit each of (i) Gamdhamādana as well as (ii) Mālavamta(1)2 mountain. 1. Jam. 86, Sth. 590.
2. Jam. 91, Sth. 689.
5. Uttarakuru A garden outside the city of Sāgeya. There was in it a shrine of Jakkha Pāsamiya.1
1. Jna. 154, Vip. 34.
Uttarakurudaba (Uttarakurudraha) Same as Uttarakuru(3).1
1. Sth. 434.
Uttarakūlaga (Uttarakūlaka) A class of vānaprastha ascetics 1 confining their movements to the northern bank of Gamgā.? 1. Bha. 417, Nir. 3. 3, Aup. 38.
2. BhaA. p. 519.
Uttarakhattiyakumdapura (Uttaraksatriyakundapura) See Khattiyakumdapura.1
1. Aca. 2. 176.
A canonical text 1 not extant now.1
Uttaracūliya (Uttaracūlikā)
1. AvaCu. II. p. 157.
Uttarajjhayana (Uttarādhyayana) An Angabāhira Kāliya text 1 of multiple authorship. It consists of the following thirty-six chapters: 3 (1) Viņayasuya, (2) Parisaha, (3) Cauramgijja, (4) Asamkhaya, (5) Akāmamarana, (6) Niya
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