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Dvyäśrayakāvya
the best river of India. It is also called divine river (Surasindhu XX.46)1.
Hemacandra has referred to Gangadvāra also (V.2). Gangadvāra has been recognized as a pilgrimage connected with the river Ganga. D.C. Sircar has quoted a verse from the Viṣṇusamhita (ch.85, 28) to prove the same.
Moreover, Lohitagangam (where Ganga is red V 33) and Trigangam (where three flows of Ganga congregate, VI.7) have been mentioned in the poem.
Godavari (XIX.112). No special characteristics of the river Godavari are found it the poem.
Carmavati (11.63). Carmavati is called Prabhāsabhūḥ i.e. a pilgrimage. According to the Dvyasrayakāvya, this was relinquished by the pilgrims due a fear from Grāharipu.
V.S. Agrawal has identified it with the modern Chambal river. N.L.Dey has made specific mention of a cluster of hills called Janapava as its source while in the Puraṇas it has been grouped with Pārā, Šipra, and Avanti etc. which issue forth from Pāriyātra, the western Vindhyas together with the Aravalley range5. P.V. Kane puts Mhow as its source.
The Para (Pārvati), Avanti and Kunti are its main tributaries and Carmaṇvatī itself feeds the river Yamunā, about 25 miles to the south west of Itawah'.
1. For details of Ganga, see D.C. Sircar, op. cit., pp.172ff. 2. ibid; p.179.
गङ्गाद्वारे प्रयागे च गङ्गासागरसङ्गमे ।
सततं नैमिषारण्ये वाराणस्यां विशेषतः |
3. Agrawala, V.S. India as known to Panini, p.47.
4. Dey, N.L. op. cit., p.48
5. Sircar; D.C. op. cit., pp. 45-46.
6. Kane, P.V. History of Dharmasastra, vol. IV. p.743.
7. Bajpai, K.D. op. cit., p.91.
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