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shrine of Sapta-Kotisvara Mahadeva was established by the Sapta Rishis at Narvem in
the island of Divar (Dipavatî) on the north of Goa Island proper (Ind. Ant., III, 194). Govarddhana---1. Mount Govarddhana, eighteen miles from Brindavan in the district
of Mathura. In the village called Paitho, Krishna is said to have taken up the mount on his little finger and held it as an umbrella over the heads of his cattle and his townsmen to protect them from the deluge of rain poured upon them by Indra (Moh., Udyoga, ch. 129). See Vraja-mandala. 2. The district of Nasik in the Bombay Presidency (Bhandarkar's Early History of the Dekkan; Mahâvastuavadana in Dr. R. L. Mitra's Sanskrit Literature of Nepal, p. 160). See Govarddhana pura. Govarddhana-matha-One of the four Mathas established by Sarkarâchâryya at Jagannatha
in Orissa (see Bfingagiri). Govardd hanapura-Govardhan, a village near Nasik in the Bombay Presidency
(Márkandeya P., ch. 57; Dr. Bhandarkar's Early History of the Dekkan, p. 3). Goyaga na--It is evidently the Kiu-pi-shwong-na of Hiuen Tsiang, which has been restoreci
by Julien to Govisana: it is 400 li to the south-east of Matipura or the present Murdore,
a town in Western Rohilkhand near Bignor (Mbh., Bhishma P., ch. 17). Gridhrakata-parvata-According to General Cunningham it is a part of the Saila-giri, the
Vulture-peak of Fa Hian and Indrašilå-guhâ of Hjuen Tsiang (see Indrašila-guba). It lies two miles and a half to the south-east of new Rajgir. Sailagiri is evidently & spur of the Ratnakůta or Ratnagiri, but the name of Sailagiri is not known to the inhabitants of this piace. Buddha performed austerities here for some time after leaving the Pandava giri cave, and in his subsequent sojourn, he delivered here many of his excellent Sûtras. Devadatta hurled a block cf stone from the top of this hill to kill Buddha while he was walking below in meditation (Chullavagga, Pt. vii, ch. 3, but see Girivrajapura). Buddha resided in the garden of Jivaka, the physician, at the foot of the mountain and here he was visited by the king Ajâtasatru and by his minister Varshâkâra, which led to the foundation of Pâţaliputra (Cunningham's Stupa of Bharhut, p. 89 and Mahd
parinibbana 8 utta). It is also called Giriyek hill. Guhyesvari-The temple of Guhyeśvarî, which is claimed both by the Hindus and
Northern Buddhists as their own deity, is situated on the left bank of the Bagmati. about a quarter of a mile above the temple of Paśnpatinatha and three miles northeast of Katmandu (Wright's Hist: of Nepal, p. 79; Devi-Bhagvata vii, 38). See
Nepala. Ganamati-vibara-The Gunamati monastery, which was visited by Hiuen Tsiang. was situated on the Kunva hill at Dharawat in the sub-division of Jahanabad in the Distriot of Gaya. The twelve-armed statue of Bhairava at that place is really an
ancient Buddhist statue of Avalokiteswara (Grierson, Notes on the District of Gaya). Guptahari-Same as Gopratara (Skanda P., Ayodhy A-Mahat., ch. vi). Gupta-kaki-1. Bhuvaneśvara in Orissa. 2. In Soạitapura (see Sonitapura). Gorilare-Gujarat and the greater part of Khandesh and Malwa (Conder's Modern
Traveller, vol. x, P 130). In the seventh century, at the time of Hiuen Tsiang, the name was not extended to the peninsula of Gujarat, which was then known only by the pame of Saurashtra. The modern district of Marwar was then known by the name of Gurjjara. It appears from the Periplus thot the south-eastern portion of Gujarat about the inouth of the Nerbudda was oalled Abhira, the Aberia of the Greeks, Gujarat was
