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Gomukh-According to Capt. Raper (Asiatic Researches, vol. XI, p. 506) and Major
Thorn (Memoir of the War in India, p. 504), it is situated two miles beyond Gangotri. It is a large rock called Cow's Mouth by the Hindus from its resemblance to the head and body of that animal. But see Fraser's Himala Mountains, p. 473. Go-mukhi is
perhaps the Go-karņa of the Ramayana, I, 42. Gonanda-Same as Gonardda (2). (Brahmânda P., ch. 49; cf. Matsya P., ch. 113.) Godard da--1. The Punjab, so called from Gonardda, king of Kaimira, who con
quered it. 2. Gonda in Oudh is a corruption of Gonardda, the birth-place of Patanjali the celebrated author of the Mahâbhåshya : hence he was called Gonarddîya. See Gauda. He lived in the middle of the second century before the Christian era, and was a contemporary of Pushpamitra, king of Magadha, and wrote his Mahabhashua between 140 and 120 B.C. During his time, Menander, the Greek king of Sakala in the Punjab, invaded Ayodhya (Goldstücker's Pånini, pp. 234, 235; Matsya P., ch. 113; Bhandarkar, Ind. Ant., II, 70). 3. A town situated between Ujjayini and Vidisa or Bhilsa
(Sutta-ni pâta: Vatthu gâthâ). Gopaehala--1. The Rohtas hill (JASB. (1839), p. 696). 2. Same as Gopadri (2)
[JASB. (1862), p. 409]. Gwalior. Gopadri--). Takht-i-Sulaiman mountain near Srinagar in Kasmir (Dr. Stein's Rajata
rangini, I, p. 51 note). See Sankaracharya. 2. Gwalior (Dr. Kielhorn, Ep. Ind., vol. I,
pp. 124, 154 ; Devi P., ch. 75). 3. The Rohtas hill: same as Gopke hala. Gopakavana-Goa. It was also called Gopakapattana or Gopakapura. It was ruled by
the Kadam ba dynasty (Dr. Bühler's Introduction to the Vikramankadeva-charita, p. 34
note). Goparashtra--Same as Govarashtra. The Igatpur sub-division of the district of Nasik
(Mbh., Bhishma, ch. 9; Ind. Ant., vol. IX). According to Garrett it is the same as
Kuva: Southern Konkana (Garrett's Class. Dic.). GopratAra-Guptâra, a place of pilgrimage on the bank of the Sarajů at Fyzabad in
Oudh, where Ramachandra is said to have died (Ramayana, Uttara K., ch. 110). Near the temple of Guptara Mahadeva, a place is pointed out where Ramachandra is said to
have breathed his last. Goratha Hill-Bathâni-ka-pâhâd, a small isolated hill about five or six miles to the west
of the valley of old Rajagriha, appearing from a distance to have three peaks, from which Bhima, Arjuna, and Krishna reconnoitred the beautiful capital of Magadha (Mbh., Sabha P., ch. 20). It is on the north of Sandol hill which is larger than the
Båthâni-ka-pâhâd. Goirlöga parvata . A mountain near Nishadhabhūmi (Narwar) in Central India
(Mahabharata, Sabbâ, 31). Same as Gopadri (2). 2. Kohmari Spur, near Ujat in Eastern Turkistan, visited by Hiuen Tsiang, 13 miles from Khotan. It was a oelebrated place of pilgrimage in Buddhist Khotan, which contained a monastery and cave where an Arhat resided (Dr. Stein's Sandburied Ruins of Khotan). 3. The Gopuchchha mountain in Nepal near Katmandu upon which the temple of Svayambhunatha id
situated (Svayambhu Purána, ch. I). Gova-rashtra Gova-rishtra is evidently a corruption of Goparáshtra of the Mahabharata
(Bhishma P., ch. IX). It is the Kauba (Gova) of Ptolemy. See Goparashtra. The
