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Bindhya pada Parvata-The Satpura range from which rise the Tapti and other rivers
(Vandha P.. oh. 85). It lies between the Nerbada and the Tâpti. It is the Mount Sardonys of Ptolemy containing mines of cornelian, Sardian being a species of cornelian (MoCrthdlo's Ptolemy). On a spur of the Satpura range is a colossal rock-cut Jaina image of the Digambara soot oallod Bawangaj, about 73 foot in height on the Norbada in the district of Burwani, about 100 miles from Indore (JA8B., XVII, p. 918). See
Bra vapa-BelgolA. Bindhyântavi-Portions of Khandesh and Aurangabad, which lie on the south of the
western extremity of the Vindhya range, including Nasik. Bindubâsint-The celebrated place of pilgrimage in the distriot of Mirzapur in the U. P.
See Vindhyachala (Vamana P., ch. 45). Bindu-sara-1. A sacred pool situated on the Rudra-Himalaya, two miles south of Gangotri, where Bhagiratha is said to have performed asceticism for bringing down the goddess Gaigs from heaven (Râmdyana, I, 43, and Matsya P., ch. 121). In the Brahmd nda-Purana (ch. 61), this tank is said to be situated at the foot of the Gauda Parvata on the north of the Kailâsa range, which is called Mainaka-Parvata in the Mahabharata (Sabha, oh. 3). 2. In Sitpur (Siddhapura in Gujarat) north-west of Ahmedabad: it was the hermitage of Kardama Rishi and birth-place of Kapila (Bhagavata P.. Skanda III). See Siddhapura. 3. A sacred tank called Bindusagara and also Gosågara at Bhuvanesvara in Orissa (Padma P.) Mahadeva caused the water of this tank to rise from Påtala by means of his Trišala (trident) in order to quench the thirst of Bhagavati when she was fatigued with her fight with the two demons of
Bhuvanesvara, named Kirtti and Basa (Bhuvanesvara-Mahatmya). Bligara-Ahmednagaz, seventy-one miles from Poona, which was founded by Ahmed
Nizam Shah in 1494. Binitapura-Katak in Orissa (Ep. Ind., vol. III, pp. 323–359; JASB., 1905, p. 1). BipasaThe Bias, the Hypasis of the Greeks. The origin of the name of this river is
related in the Mahabharata (Adi, ch. 179). Rishi Vasishtha, being weary of life on account of the death of his sons killed by Visvâmitra, tied his hands and foot with chords, and threw himself into the river, which afraid of killing & Brahmaņa, burst the bonds (pasa) and came to the shore. The hot springs and village of Vašishtha Muni are situated
opposite to Monali (JASB., vol. XVII, p. 209). Biraja-kshetra-A country which stretches for ten miles around Jajpur on the bank
of the river Baitaraņi in Orissa (Mahâbhârata, Vana P., ch. 85; Brahma P., oh. 42). It
is also called Gada-kshetra, sacred to the Sâktas (Kapila-samhitd). Birâta-The country of Jaipur. The town of Biråța or Bairât, 105 miles to the sonth
of Delhi and 40 miles to the north of Jaipur (Cunningham, Arch. 8. Rep., II, p. 244) was the ancient capital of Jaipur or Matsyadeśa. It was the capital of Viráta Raja, king of the Matsya-dosa, where the five Påndavas lived in secrecy for one year. It isa mistake to identify Biráta with Dinajpur whereat Kantanagara, Virâ ța's Uttara-gogriba (northern cowsbed) is shown, the Dakshiņargogriha (southern cow shed) being shown at Mid napur, This identification is not countenanced by the Mahabharata, which relates that Yudhishthira selected a kingdom in the neighbourhood of Hastinapura as his place of concealment, from which he could watch the movements of his enemy Duryodhana, (Mbh., Virata, ch. 1, and Sabha, ch. 30). See Matsyadela. The Paņdu hill at Bairáta. which has a cave called Bhîmagupha, contains an inscription of Aboka (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 1, p. 22).
