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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
22; the forest-territory (vana-rashtra), in the north-east division, xiv. 29;- the forestkingdom (vana-rajya), in the north-east division, xiv. 30 - the forest of Vasus or spirits (vasu-vana), in the north-east division, xiv. 31. The kings of all the forest countries (sarv-útavika-rája)" were compelled by Samudragupta to do service to him (Gupta Inscriptions, p. 13). The same record mentions also a kingdom named Mahakântara, which seems to be a great forest kingdom (ibid.). And the hereditary territory of the Maharaja Samkshôbha included "the eighteen forest kingdoms" (ashtadas-útavi-rajya; id. p. 116).
Gajahvaya, apparently (the city) that has the appellation of the elephant,' i.e. Gajapura or Hastinapura, the modern Dehli, in the middle country, xiv. 4. Gambhîrika, a river; misc. ref., xvi. 16. Ganarajya, a kingdom in the southern division, xiv. 14.
Gandhara, a country (the modern Kandahår), and the people of it, in the northern division, xiv. 28; misc. ref., iv. 23; v. 77, 78; ix. 21; x. 7; xvi. 26; xvii. 18; lxix. 26. The name is carried back to the third century B. C. by one of the edicts of Asóka (Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. pp. 239, 240, 247). Gandharva, a class of supernatural beings, in the north-east division, xiv. 31; misc. ref., xiii. 8; lxxxvii. 33.
Ganga, the river Ganges, described as constituting, with the Jamnâ, the necklace of the earth, xliii. 32;- reference to the region between the Ganga and the Yamuna, lxix. 26; misc. ref., xvi. 16.
Garuhâ, see Guruhâ. Gauḍaka, a people in the eastern division, xiv. 7. This is the reading in the text; but in his translation Kern gives "Gauras," and adds the note". e. the Whites,' supposed to live in Svêtadvipa, which, according to Kathúsaritsagara, 54, 18, 199, lies near the Cocoa-island" (see islands'). Albêrûnî gives "Gauraka."
Gauragriva, a people in the middle country xiv. 3.
Gavya, a people in the northern division, xiv. 28. Ghosha, a people in the middle country, xiv.
2; and in the north-east division, xiv. 30.
[JULY, 1893.
In xiv. 2, Kern translates "Ghôsha;" and in xiv. 30, "Ghôshas (stations of herdsmen)." Girinagara, a city in the southern division, xiv. 11. The name has now passed over to the mountain Girnår, in Kathiawâḍ; and the ancient city is now represented by Junâgadh, at the foot of it. The original name of the Girnår mountain was Urjayat (Gupta Inscriptions, pp. 64, 65). Girivraja, the inhabitants of the district of Girivraja,' as rendered by Kern, - in accordance with the commentary, I presume; misc. ref., x. 14. H. H. Wilson (VishnuPurána, Translation, Vol. IV. p. 15, note 3), said that Girivraja is "in the mountainous part of Magadha ;" and further on (id. p. 180, note 1) he identified it with Rajagriha in Bihar.
Gôdâvarî, the river of that name in Southern India; misc. ref., xvi. 9.
Gôlângûla, a (?) mountain; misc. ref., xvi. 3. gold, the region of (kanaka), in the western division, xiv. 21, and (suvarna-bhú) in the north-east division, xiv. 31.
Gomanta, a mountain; misc. ref., v. 68, xvi. 17. Gômatî, a river; misc. ref., perhaps an interpolation, xvi. 12. It seems to be the modern Gômti or Gumti, which rises in the Shahjahanpur District and flows into the Ganges about half-way between Benares and Ghâzîpur; at any rate, it is somewhere in that neighbourhood that we have to locate the place Gômatikoṭṭaka, which is mentioned in the Dêô-Baranârk inscription of Jivitagupta II. (Gupta Inscriptions, p. 217). But there is also a river Gômatî in the Kângra District in the Panjab.
Gônarda, a people in the southern division, xiv. 12; misc. ref., ix. 13; xxxii. 22. Guda, a people in the middle country, xiv. 3. Albêrûnî says "Guda Tânêshar." Guruhâ, or Garuhâ, a river in the north-west division, xiv. 23. There are the various readings of Gulahá, Guluhá, and Gurúha. Below his translation, Kern remarks "Guruha (also Garuhâ) is, to my apprehension, the Garoigas of the Greeks; the river district they called Goryaia. Lassen, in his Altert. iii. p. 127 and 136, identifies the Greek name with Gauri. It need not be pointed out how exactly both forms coincide with Garuha and Guruhâ."
