Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

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Karaskara-The country of the Karaskaras is in the south of India (Mbh., Karna,
44; Baudhayana, I, 1, 2; Matsya P., 113). Perhaps it is Karakal in South Kanara, Madras Presidency, famous for the Jaina and Buddhist pilgrims, which accounts for its
being condemned as a place of pilgrimage. Karatoya-1. A sacred river which flows through the districts of Rangpur, Dinajpur,
and Bogra. It formed the boundary between the kingdoms of Bengal and Kamarupa at the time of the Mahabharata (Vana, ch. 85): see Sadantīra. It flowed through the ancient Pundra (Skanda P.). It is called Karatoya and Kurati. 2. A river near the
Candhamådana mountain (Mbh. Anus., ch. 25). Karavana-Karvan in the territory of the Gaikwar, 15 miles south of Baroda and 8 miles
north-east of Miyagam railway station. Nakulisa, the founder of the Pasupata sect of Saivism, flourished between the 2nd and 5th century A.D. His chief shrine of Siva called Nakulisa or Nakulesvara (see Devi P., ch. 63) was at Kårvån. The special holiness attached to the Narbada and its pebbles as Lingas is probably due to the neighbourhood of this shrine of Kårvân (Bhagavanlal Indraji's Early History of Gujarat, pp.
83, 84). Same as KAYAvarohana. Karavirspurs-1.' It has been identified with Kolhapur in the Province of Bombay
(Madhura Kavisarma's Archavatarasthala-vaibhava-darpanam; Padma P., Uttara Kh., ch. 74; Ramdas Sen's Aitihasika Rahasya, 3rd ed., Pt. II, p. 276). It is locally called Kârvir. Krishna met here Parasurama, and killed its king named Srigala. Same as Padmavati on the river Veņva, a branch of the Krishna (Harivamsa, ch. 9). The temple of Maha Lakshmi is situated at this place (Devi Bhagavata, vii, chs. 30, 38; Matsya P.. ch. 13). In the eleventh century it was the capital of the Silahara chiefs. For the genealogy of the Silahâra dynasty of Kolhapur, see Ep. Ind., vol. III, pp. 208, 211, 213. It appears from an inscription that Ksbullakapura is another name for Kolhapur. (Ep. Ind.. Vol. III, p. 209). 2. The capital of Brahmavartta : it was situated on the river
Dțishadvati (Kalika P., chs, 48, 49). Karddama-Asrama.--Sitpur or Sidhpur (Siddhapura) in Gujarat, the hermitage of Rishi
Karddama and birth-place of Kapila. The hermitage of the Rishi was situated on the bank of the Bindusarovara caused by the tears of Vishnu (Bhagavata P., Bk. III, ch. 21). The town itself is situated on the north bank of the river Sarasvati in the Kadi
district of the Baroda State, sixty-four miles north of Ahmadabad. Karkotaka-Nagara-1. Karra, forty-one miles north-west of Allahabad, It is one of
the Pithas where Sati's hand is said to have fallen (Führer's MAI.). 2. Perhaps Arakan (Rakia) on the opposite side of Tamralipta across the eastern sea," i.e., the Bay
of Bengal (Katha-sarit-sågara, Pt. I, ch. 18 ; Tawney's trans., Vol. I, p. 136). Karmanåså--1. The cursed river, the water of which is considered by the Hindus to be
pollated, being associated with the sins of Trisaiku, the protégé of Rishi Visvamitra (Vayú P., ch. 88, v. 113). The river is on the western limit of the district of Shahabad in the former province of Bengal and forms the boundary of Bihar and the United Provinces: It issues from a spring situated in a village called Sarodak (Martin's Eastern India, Vol.
I, p. 400). 2. A small rill in Baidyanatha (see Chitabhuml). Karmamanta-Kamta, near Comilla, in the district of Tipära, Bengal, It was the
capital of Samatata at the time of the Khadga kings (JASB., 1914, p. 87). Karna-Ganga.--The river Pendar, a tributary of the Alakananda in Garwal.