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Garga-asrama-1. Gagason, the reputed site of the hermitage of Rishi Garga, situated in the Rai Bareli district, opposite to Asni, across the Ganges. 2. The Lodh Moona forest in Kumaon is also said to be the hermitage of the Rishi: the river Gugas rises in this forest and falls into the Dhauli. See Karmachala (JASB., XVII, p. 617). Garjapura-Ghazipur (according to General Cunningham, Anc. Geo.). This part of the country was visited by Fa Hian in the fifth century. General Cunningham infers the ancient name of Garjapura (which is not found in any ancient work) from the modern name Ghazipur and hence his identification is faulty. It formed a part of the ancient Dharmâranya (Führer MAI.). See Dharmaranya and Ghazipur in Pt. II, of this work. Gauda-1. The whole of Bengal was denominated Eastern Gauda from its capital of the same name, the ruins of which lie near Malda at a distance of about ten miles (see Lakshmanavati). It was situated on the left bank of the Ganges which has now receded from it four and half miles, and in some places twelve miles. It was the capital of Deva Pâla, Mahendra Pâla, Âdisura, Ballâla Sena, and the Muhammadan rulers from 1204 upto about the close of the sixteenth century. It is said to have been founded in A. D. 648 when Bengal became independent of the Magadha kingdom, the former capital of Bengal being Pundravarddhana. James Prinsep supposes that Gauḍa was founded in 1066 (JASB., vol. V), but it is mentioned by Bana in the Harshacharita. For further particulars, see Gour in Pt. II. All the country south of Anga to the sea was called Gauda (The Literary Remains of Dr. Bhau Daji). 2. Uttara Kosala the capital of which was Śrâvasti, was also called Gauda or Northern Gaula (Karma P., Pt. I, ch 20; Linga P Pt. I, ch. 65). Gonda, a sub-division of Uttara Kosala, forty-two miles south of Śrâ vasti, is a corruption of Gauda (according to General Cunningham, Anc. Geo,. p. 408). The tradition respecting the famous tooth-brush trees (danta-dhâvana) of Buddha still exists at Gonda (Fährer's MAI.). Gauda may also be a corruption of Gonardda. See Gonardda. 3. Gond wana was the Western Gau a. 4. The Southern Gau a was the bank of the Kâverî (Padma P., Pâtâla, ch. 28).
Gauda-parvata The Gangotri mountain, at the foot of which Bindusara (q. v.) is situated (Matsya P., I, ch. 121).
Gauri-The river Panjkora (the Gouraios or Guræus of the Greeks) which unites with the river Swat to form the Landoi, an affluent of the Kabul river [Mbh., Bk. VI; Alexander's Exploits on the Western Banks of the Indus, by M. A. Court in JASB. (1839), p. 807; and McCrindle's Invasion of India, p. 66]. The Panjkora rising in Gilghit, flows between the Khonar (Choes of Arrian, called also Khameh) and the Swat [JASB. (1839), p. 306]. Panjkora is evidently a corruption of Pauchagauḍa from the name of a town of that name situated on the bank of this river [JASB. (1852), p. 215]. See Panchakarpata.
Gaurikunda-1. A holy place at a very short distance below Gangotri, where the Kedar-Gangâ debouches into the Bhagirathi (Fraser's Himála Mountains, p. 466). Below Gaurikunda, there is a small temple dedicated to the goddess Gangâ. The temple is situated precisely on the sacred stone on which Bhagiratha performed asceticism to bring down the goddess (Ibid., p. 468). 2. A sacred lake on the Kailasa mountain, which is the source of rivers Sindhu and Sarajû (Râmânanda Bharati's Himaranya). 3. There is another sacred pool known by the name of Gaurikunda which is one day's journey from Kedarnath (Fraser's Himála Mountains, p. 301), or about eight miles to the south of the latter, containing a spring of hot water. 4. A hot spring on the bank of the Kâli-gangâ on the boundary of Nepal and the British district of Almora.
