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and worshipping Tryam vakešvara, one of the twelve Great Lingas of Mahadeva (Siva P.. Pt. I., ch.54 ; Vardha P., chs. 79, 80): see Amaresvara. Ramachandra is said to have crossed the river on his way to Laika at Bhadrachalam in the Godavari district where
a temple marks the spot. Godhana-giri--Same as Garatha Hill (Bana Bhatta's Harshacharita, ch. VI). Gokarna-1. Gendia, a town in the province of North-Kanara, Karwar district,
thirty miles from Goa between Karwar and Kumta. It is a celebrated place of pilgrimage (Mbh., Adi P., ch. 219; Raghuvamsa, VIII ; Śiva P., Bk. III, ch. 15). It contains the temple of Mahadeva Mahâbâleśvara established by Ravana. It is thirty miles south of Sadasheogad which is three miles south of Goa [Newbold: JASB., vol. XV (1846), p. 228). Here, Sai karacharyya defeated in controversy Nilkantha, a Saiva (Sankaravijaya, ch. 15). 2. Bhagiratha, king of Ayodhyâ, is said to have performed austerities at Gokarņa to bring down the Ganges (Ramayana, Bala K, ch. 42). This Gokarna is evidently the modern Gomukhí, two miles beyond Gangotri. 3. According to the Varáha Purana (ch. 170),
Gokarna is situated on the Sarasvatî-saigama or confluence of the river Sarasvati. Gokula-Same as Vraja or Mahâvana (Padma P., Pâtála, ch. 40; Adi P., chs. 12, 15), or
Purâņa-Gokul where Kộishọa was reared up. Nanda, the foster-father of Krishna, removed from Gokula to Brindåvana to escape molestations from the myrmidons of Kausa (Adi P., ch. 3). Mahavana or Purâna-Gokula is six miles from Mathurâ. and contains places associated with the early life of Krishna Vallabhacharyya, who was a contemporary of Chaitanya and known also by the name of Vallabha Bhatta of Ambaligrama (q. v.), and who founded the Ballabhachari sect of Vaish ņavas, built new Gokula in imitation of Ma håvana, where, in the temple of Syama Lala, Yasoda, wife of Nanda. is said to have given birth to Mâyâ Devî, and where Nanda's palace was converted into a mosque at the time of Aurangzeb (Chaitanya Charitâmrita, II, 19; also Growse's Mathura), see Braja. The village of new Gokula is one mile to the south of Mahâvana on the eastern bank of the Jamuna i Lochana Dâs's Chaitanyamangala (Atul Gosvami's
ed.) III, p. 181]. Gomanta-giri-1. An isolated mountain in the Western Ghats, where Krishna and
Balarâma defeated Jarksindhu (Harivam a ch. 42). There is a Tîrtha called Goraksha on the top of Gomanta-giri. The mountain is situated in the country about Goa i.e., the Konkan, called the country of Gomanta (Padma P., Adi Kh., ch. 6). The Harivamsa (chs. 98 and 99) locates a mountain Gomanta-giri in North Kanara. 2. The Raivata
hill in Gujarat was also called Gomanta (Mbh., Sabhá, ch. 14). Gomati-1. The river Gumti in Oudh (Ramayana, Ayodhyâ, ch. 49). Lucknow stands
on this river. 2. The river Godavari near its source where the temple of Tryamvaka is situated (Siva P., Bk. 1, ch. 54). It is also called Gotami, from Rishi Gautama who had his hermitage at this place (Ibid., ch. 54). . 3. A river in Gujarat on which Dvâraka is situated (Skanda P., Avanti Kh., ch. 60). 4. A branch of the Chambal in Malwa on which Rintambur is situated (Meghad útu, Pt. I, v. 47). 5. The Gomal river in Arachosia of Afghanistan (Rig Veda, X, 75 and Lassen Ind. Alt.). It falls into the Indus between Dera Ismael Khan and Pâbâdpur. 6. A river in the Kamgra district, Punjab (Ind. Ant., XXII, p. 178).
