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Hatyaharana---Hattiaharan, twenty-eight miles south-east of Hardoi in Oudh.
Ramachandra is said to have expiated his sin for killing Râvana, who was a Brahman's
son, by bathing at this place. Hayamukha---Cunningham has identified this with Daundiakhera on the northern bank of
the Ganges, about 104 miles north-west of Allahabad (Jaimini-Bharata, ch. 22 ; Cunningham's Anc. Geo., p. 387). Beal considers that the identification is not satisfactory
(Records of Western Countries, I, 229). It was visited by Hiuen Tsiang. Hemakůta-1. Called also Hemaparvata. It is another name for the Kallása mountain which is the abode of Kuvera, the king of the Yakshas (Mbh., Bhishma P., ch. 6; Kurma P., I, 48). This appears to be confirmed by Kalidasa (Ćakuntala, Act vii). 2. The Båndar puchchh a range of the Himalaya in which the rivers Alakananda, Ganges and Jamuna have got their source (Varáha P., ch. 82). It should be observed that the Kailasa, and Bandarpuchchha ranges were called by the general name of Kaiļása. See
Kailasa. Hidamba-Cachar, named after a Raja of Kamarupa in Assam, who built a palace at Khaspur at the foot of the northern range of hills (Bengal and Agra Guide and Gazetteer
(1841), vol. 11, p. 97). Himadri-The Himalaya mountain. Himalaya--The Himalaya mountain, (see Himavan). Himayan-Same as Himalaya (Markandeya P., obs. 54, 55). According to the Pura, as,
Himavân or the Himalaya range is to the south of Manasa-sarovara (Vardha P., ch. 78). Himavanta-Majhima, Kassapa gotta, and Dundubhissara were sent as missionaries
to Himavanta by Asoka (Mahavamsa, ch. xii). Their ashes were found in a tope at Sanchi (Cunningham, Bhilsa Tope, p. 287). By some, it has been identified with Tibet.
but Fergusson identifies it with Nepal (Fergusson's Cave Temples of India, p. 17). Hingula-Hinglaj (Devi-Bhagavata, vii, 38), situated at the extremity of the range of mountains in Beluchistan called by the name of Hiigula, about twenty miles or a day's journey from the sea-coast, on the bank of the Aghor or Hingula or Hingol river (the Tomeros of Alexander's historians) near its mouth. It is one of the fifty-two pithas or places celebrated as the spots on which fell Sati's dissevered limbs. Sati's brahmarandhra is said to have fallen at this place (Tantra Chud Amani.) The goddess Durga is known here by the name of Mahamaya or Kotfari, According to Captain Hart, who visited the temple, it is situated in a narrow gorge, tbe mountains on each side of which rise perpendicularly to nearly a thousand feet. It is a low mud edifice, built at one end of a natural cave of small dimensions, and contains only a tomb-shaped stone, called the goddess Mata or Mahamaya [Account of a Journey from Karachi to Hinglaj in JASB., IX (1840), p. 134; Brief History of Kalat by Major Robert Leech in JASB., (1843), p. 473]. Sir T. Holdich considers that the shrine had been in existence before the days of Alexander, "for the shrine is sacred to the goddess Nana (now identified with Siva by the Hindus)" which, Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus of the Greeks) king of Assyria, removed from Susa in 645 B.C. to the original sanctuary at Urakh (now Warka in Mesopotamia), the goddess being Assyrian. (The Greek Retreat from India in the Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. XLIX;
