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southern bank of tho river Mandakini (Kurma P., ch. 14). 5. Kanva-Asrama near Kota
in Rajputana was also called Dharmaranya (Mbh., Vana, ch. 82). See Kanva-Asrama. Dharmodaya-The river Dâmuda in Bengal. Dhavalagiri—The Dhauli hill in the sub-division of Khurda in Orissa, on which
one of the Ediots of Asoka is inscribed. Dhavala or Dhavali is five miles from the Khanga-giri range which is situated four or five miles to the west of Bhuvanešvara, containing many caves of the Buddhist period. But it is difficult to ascertain how the name of Dhauli has been derived by some authorities from Dhavali. In the last ta blet of the Dhauli inscriptions, it is mentioned that "the Dubalahi tupha," or in other words, the stūpes for the Durbala or weak, were founded for un disturbed meditation. Henco the name of Dhauli appears to have been derived from Durbala or Dubla monastery of that place. The hill, as it appears from the inscription, was situated in Tosals (see the first tablet of the inscription), and Tosala has been identified with "Tosalah. Kosalah" of the Brahmanda Purana (ch. 49 ) or simply Kosala of the Brihat Samhita (see Examination of the Inscription at Dhauli in Cuttack by J. Prinsep in the J ASB., 1838, pp. 448-452). The Girnar and Dhauli inscriptions of Asoka are identical in substance: in fact the Dhauli inscription is the duplicate of the Girnar insoription in language and alphabet (see JASB., 1838, pp. 158, 160, 219, 276-279). For the inscriptions on
the Khandagiri hill, soe JASB., 1837, p. 1090. Dhundhra-Amer, the ancient capital of Jaipur. Kuvalkáva, the great-grandfather of
Nikumbha and one of the ancestors of Ramachandra of Ayodhyā, killed the demon Dhundhu and was therefore called Dhundhumara : the whole country of Jaipur, especially Amer, was called Dhundhra after his name. It was included in Marudhanva
(Mbh., Vana, chs. 201-203). Dhutapapa-). Dhopåp on the Gumti, 18 miles south-east of Sultanpur in Oudh : see
Dhondp in Pt. II ( Brahmanda P., ch. 49). 2. A tributary of the Ganges in Benares
(Skanda P., Katt kh., uttara, ch. 59). Dipavati -The island of Divar on the north of the island of Goa, containing, at old
Narvem on the bank of the Panchaganga, the temple of Mahadeva Sapta-Kotisvara
established by the Sapta Rishis (Skanda P., Sahyadri kh.; Ind. Ant., III, 1874, p. 194). Dirgha-pura-Deeg, in the territory of Bharatpur. See Thornton's Gazetteer, 8. v. Deeg. Dramila-Most probably, it is the same as Damila (Hemchandra's Sthavirdvalicharita
(Jacobi's ed.) XI, 285). But according to Dr. Fleet, Dramila was the Drávida country
of the Pallavas on the east coast : Kanohi was its capital (Bom. Gaz., vol. I, pt. II, p. 281); Dravida-Same as Dravida. Dravida - Part of the Deccan from Madras to Seringa patam and Cape Comorin: the
country south of the river Pennar or rather Tripati (JRAS., 1846 p. 15). Its capital was Kañobipura (Manu, ch. X, and Dasakumaracharita, ch. 6). It was also called Chola (Bühler's Intro to Vikrama i kadeva-charita, p. 27, note 7). At the time of the Mahabharata
(Vana, 118) its northern boundary was the Godavari. Drishadvati-The Caggar (Ghagar) which flowed through Ambala and Sirhind, now
lost in the sands of Rajputana (Elphinstone and Tod, JASB., VI, p. 181). General Cunningham has identified it with the river Rakshi which flows by the south-east of Thaneswar (Arch. S. Rep., vol. XIV). It formed the southern boundary of Kurukshetra (see Kurukshetra). The Dțishadvat has been identified with the modern Chitrang, Chautang, or Chitang, which runs parallel to the Sarasvati (Imperial Gazetteer of India, p. 36:
