Book Title: Critical Study Of Paumacariyam
Author(s): K R Chandra
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa

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________________ 535 .GEOGRAPHICAL PLACES, PEOPLES AND TRIBES 66). A town of this name probably existed also in the Mahārāṣṭra (JASG, p.14). Asinapura (7.50):-The people belonging to this place came to be known as the Asinas (Aśvinis PCR, 7.119 ?). A village Asni is situated about 10 miles north of Fatehpur (U. P.), where a stone pillar inscription has been discovered (HGAI, p. 66). If the Asinas are the Asmakas then Aśmeka can be identified with a place on the Godavari near Paithan (SI, I, p. 198). Indranagara (36.12):-Vanamālā the princess of Vijayapura was bethrothed to the prince of this town but later on she was married to Lakṣmaṇa. Indrasthāna of the Bhag. Pu. (10.58.1) or Indraprastha of Padma. Pu. (200.17.18) is identified with Indrapat two miles to the south of modern Delhi (HGAI, p. 86). Another Indrapur is identified with Indor in the Bulandsahar district in U. P. (JASG, 24; SI, I, p. 311). Isindapalli (29.63):-It is referred to as a settlement of the Mlecchas situated in the thick forest, in the vicinity of the Sammeta mountain. Karnakundalapura:-Hanumat is said to have lived there (19.35; 108.1). But he was the ruler of Śrīparvata (85.26). Marital relations existed between the Vanaras of Kişkindhipura and the Vidyadharas of Karnakundalapura (6.218). Dandaka is mentioned as the ancient king of this place. It is said that it was situated in the interior of the Dandaka forest (41.19) Thus it seems to be a place of the southern plateau. Kinnarapura or Kinnaragitapura:—It is mentiond as a Vidhyadhara town (5.242.. Those who lived there came to be known as the Kinnaras (7.49). Hanumat married various Kinnar princesses (19.36). Thus it should be in the Dakṣiņāpatha. But in the Jatakas the Kinnaras are assigned the Himalayan region (IV.p.438f). Jayacandra Vidyālaṁkār identifies the land of the Kinnaras with modern Kanaur in the upper valley of the Sutlej where the head water of the Candrabhāgā flow adjacent to it (Vide IK, p.62). = Kuñcapura (Krauñcapura 48.14):-It is perhaps the Krauncapura (Vanavāsī) situated on the Berada an affluent of Tungabhadra river GD, p. 104). Kundanagara:-The PCV mentions that Ujjeni was visited by merchants from Kundanagara (33.65). Vidarbha's ancient capital Kundanapura is identified with Kundanpura on the bank of Wardha

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