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Northern latitude. The definition shows that Vyomasiva may not have seen the sun passing through the Zenith.
It may be further stated that the places referred to in Vyomavati are also situated in North-West India. He refers to Kedäragiri. He says : fartfiftentiæQİ F. Fariastaura faqtarFIT (p.527,Ist edition). The pilgrim stavding at the site may describe such natural phenomena and infer the fall of a thunderbolt when he hears the sound of the splashing ripples of the Mandākini descending from the height and mending its course next to the trek of the travellers. Again Pañcapura (p.694, 1st ed.) and Panyapura (p 683 ist ed.) mentioned by him are not traceable in modern maps. But, the town called Pañjagoda situated on the bank of river Pañjakora, a tributory of the river Swat, may be identified with Pañcapura. This is situated on one of the southern slopes of the Hindukush mountain. The original name of the place was probably Pañcakarpața as Mr. De in his Dictionary of Ancient Indian Geographical Terms thinks.
Moreover, Prasastapāda's word vāhika has been explained by Vyomasiva as facin (p.547, 1st ed.) which may be a scribal mistake for fetch, for for bears no meaning. So, if we read for as faros then it would mean a person from Herat. This also may suggest that the dwelling place of Vyomaśiva was in North or North-western India. Śrīdhara in Nyâya-kandali has e plained the word anklen as दक्षदेशोद्भवस्य which is not confirmed by the existing dictionaries. According to dictionaries angle means a person
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