Indian Antiquary Vol 51

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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by which the pilgrims perform their perambulation in two days. The identification of the Kiunlun range with Kailasa is a mistake (see Map of Tibet in Dr. Waddell's Lhasa and its Mysteries, p. 40). The Mahabharata, Vana (chs. 144, 156) and the Brahmâṇḍa P., (ch, 51) include the mountains of the Kumaun and Garwal in the Kailasa range (see Vikra. morvait, Act IV; Fraser's Himala Mountains, p. 470). Badrikâ-âsrama is said to be situated on the Kailasa mountain (Mbh., Vana P., ch. 157). The Kailasa mountain is also called Hemakûta (Mbh., Bhishma P., ch. 6). Four rivers are said to rise from Gangri, from the mountain or the lakes; the Indus on the north is fabled to spring from the mouth of the Lion, the Satadru on the west from the Ox, the Karnali on the south from the Peacock, and the Brahmaputra on the east from the Horse [JASB. (1848), p. 329]. Sven Hedin says, "The spring at Dolchu is called Langchenkabat, or the mouth out of which the Elephant river (i.e., the river Sutlej as called by the Tibetans) comes, just as Brahmaputra's source is the Singi-kabab, or the mouth from which the Lion river issues. The fourth in the series is the Mapcha-Kamba, the Peacock river or Karnali (Sven Hedin's Trans-Himalaya, vol. II, p. 103). For the description of the Kailasa mountain [see Sven Hedin's Trans-Himalaya, vol. II, ch. 51, and H. Strachey's Narrative of a Journey to Cho Lagan (Râkhas Tâl) in JASB., 1848, pp. 157, 158]. Kailasa mountain is the Ashţâ pada mountain of the Jainas. According to Mr. Sherring, the actual circuit round the holy mountain occupies, on an average, three days, the distance being about 25 miles. The water of the Gauri-kunda, which is a sacred lake that remains frozen all the year round, has to be touched during the circuit. Darchan is the spot where the circuit usually begins and ends (Sherring's Western Tibet, p. 279). But it is strange that none of the travellers mention anything about the temple of Hara and Pârvatî who are said to reside in the mountain.
Kaira Mall-The Kaimur range, which is situated in the name of a mountain [JASB., (1877), p. 16]. evidently a corruption of Kairamâli. Kajinghara-Same as Kajughira. Kajughira-Kajeri, ninety-two miles from Champå (Beal's R. W.C., Vol. II, p. 193n.). Cunningham identifies it with Kankjol, sixty-seven miles to the east of Champå or Bhagalpur. Kajughira is a contraction of Kubjâgriha. It may be identified with Kajra, one of the stations of E.I. Railway in the district of Monghyr. Three miles to the south are many remains of the Buddhist period, and many hot springs. Kakanada-Sanchi in the Bhopal territory, celebrated for its Buddhist topes. Bhagavanlal Indraji first pointed out that the ancient name of Sâñchi was Kâkanâda (Corp. Ins. Ind., vol. III, p. 31). Kakautha-The small stream Barhi which falls into the Chhota Gandak, eight miles below Kasia (Cunningham's Anc. Geo., p. 435). Carlleyle has identified it with the river Ghâgî, one and half miles to the west of Chitiyaon in the Gorakhpur district. See Kakushta (Mahaparinibbana Sutta, ch. IV and Arch. S. Rep., vol. XXII.) Lassen identifies Kakauthis of Arrian with the Bagmati of Nepal (McCrindle's Megasthenes and Arrian, p. 189 n.). Kalachampå Same as Champâpuri (Maha-Janaka Jataka in the Jatakas, vi, 20, 28; 127). Kaladi-Kaladi or Kalati in Kerala, where, according to the Sankaravijaya, Sankaracharyya
the ancient Kaira-desa, máli being Same as Kimmritya. Kaimur is
was born in the seventh century of the Christian era. See Kerala. His father's name was Sivaguru. Guru Govinda Ganda Padyacharya Vedantist initiated him into Sannyasihood on the banks of the Nerbada. Govindanatha was himself the disciple of Gouḍapada (Ibid., ch. V, v. 105).