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[Appendix 2]
[187] The fort was surrounded by a moat on all sides. There were many palaces and forts in all directions. Near the palace of Rama-Krishna was an assembly called Prabhasa. To the east of it was the Raivatak Giri, to the south was the Malyaavan Shail, to the west was the Saumanas Parvat, and to the north was the Gandhamadana Giri. [3] _Acharya Hemchandra, Acharya Sheelank, Devprabhasuri, Acharya Jinsen, Acharya Gunabhadra, etc., both Svetambara and Digambara writers, as well as the Vedic Harivansh Purana, Vishnu Purana and Shrimad Bhagavat [11], etc., have considered Dwarka to be on the seashore, and many writers have described the construction of Dwarka with twelve yojanas of land from the sea.
Shakrajnya Vaishramana created a city of jewels. Twelve yojanas long and nine yojanas wide. [399] Eighteen hastas high and nine hastas underground. He made a beautiful moat twelve hastas wide. [400]
-Trishakti. Parva 8, Sarg 5, p. 92 Trishakti, Parva 8, Sarg 5, p. 92 Chauppannamahapurishcharit, Pandavcharitra, Sadyo Dwaravati, Kubera created the supreme city. The city is twelve yojanas long and nine yojanas wide. With a diamond wall and surrounded by a sea moat.
-Harivansh Purana 41.18-19. Mounting the horse-shaped god, he went into the ocean. In the middle, there was a city of twelve yojanas. [20] Thus said by Naigama with his voice, Madhusudan. He created it thus, being certain, in that holy place, who is his friend? [21] The sea, like a fearsome enemy, divided itself into two.
-Uttara Purana 71.20-23, p. 376 9. Harivansh Purana 2.54 10. Vishnu Purana 5.23.13 11. Thus, having consulted, the Lord created a city of twelve yojanas. A wonderful city, entirely within the sea.
-Shrimad Bhagavat 10.50.50 (a) That place, given by the earth, is the city of the four. You are the one who has established the abode of Vasudeva on the banks of the Sindhu.
-Bhav-Bhavana 2537