Cultural Study of Nisitha Curni

SR No.: 001743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Madhu Sen
Publisher: Sohanlal Jain Dharm Pracharak Samiti Amrutsar
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 432
Language: English, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Literature
File Size: 23 MB

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A CULTURAL STUDY OF THE NISITHA CURNI
India which was called Hin- Keyara (NC. 3, p. 195):. dugadesa by the Persians. It is identified with modern Favana (NC. 4, p. 125 ):
Kedarnath in the district of It is identified with Alexan- ! Garhwal ( GD., pp. 975 f. ), dria near Kabul (GEB., p. or with a sub-tírtha called 54 ). It is mentioned as a Keyāra near Varanasi. It is non-Aryan country in the mentioned as an unholy place NC. along with the Saka- | in the NC. visaya.
Khitipatiţthiya (NC. 3, p. Kaccha (NC. 1, p, 133 ):
150; NC. 4, p. 229): Its. It is identified with modern
exact situation is not known. Kutch (GD., p. 82 ).
The place is mentioned to Kampillapura (NC. 2, pp.
have been raided by a Mlec21, 466 ): It is identified cha king during the reign of with modern Kampil in the
Jiyasattu. Farrukhabad district. It was
Kiraduka (NG. 3, p. 191): one of the ten ancient capitals
It might have been the same of India. Kamcanapura (NC. 3, pp.
as Kíra which has been iden295, 302). It is identified
tified with the Kangra district with modern Bhuvaneshwar
in the Punjab ( see-LAI., p.
297). According to the Paiya(vide-LAI., p. 293 ).
Sadda-Mahannava, Kīra was Kańci puri (NC. 2, p. 95) :
the common name given to It is identified with Canjee
Kashmir. varam on the Palar river, which is the capital of
Kollaira (NC. 3, p. 403 ): Dravida (CAGI.,p. 462 ).
It is identified with KullapaThe rūvaga of this place was
kapura or Kulpāka near Seknown as nelaka or nelaa.
cunderabad in the Nizam Kaya ( NC. 2, p. 399 ): It State (LAI., p. 28). is identified with Kāka'pura Komkana (NC. 1, pp. 52, near Bithur or with Kākanada 100, 101, 145; NC. 3, p. 296): near Sāñcí (Law, B. C., Komkaņa denotes the whole Tribes in Ancient India, p. 256; strip of land between the WesLAI., p. 295 ). It is famous tern Ghat and the Arabian for production of a fine va- Sea ( see-CAGI., p. 466 ). riety of cloth.
| Komkana seems to have been