Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

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of the Satapatha-Brahmana (Macdonell's Hist. of Sanskrit Literature, p. 144). At the foot of this peak is the Kramasara lake (now called Konsarnâg) which marks a foot-step (Krama) of Vishnu (Satapatha-Brahmana in SBE., XII; Mbh., Vana, ch. 186; Dr. Stein's Rajatarangini, II, p. 392). Vishnu is also said to have incarnated as the boar (Varaha-avatara) at Baramula, thirty-two miles from Srinagar on the right bank of the Vitastâ (see Sakara-kshetra). Asoka sent here a Buddhist missionary named Majjhantika in 245 B.C. (Mahavamsa, ch. XII). For the history of Kaşmir, see Kalhana's Rajataringint. It appears from the Jâtaka stories that Kasmir once formed a part of the kingdom of Gândhâra (Jatakas, Cam. Ed., Vol. III, pp. 222, 229). Kasyapapura-Wilson supposes that the name of Kasmir is derived from Kasyapapura, the town of Rishi Kasyapa, the Kaspapyros of Herodotos. Dr. Stein, however, is of opinion that Kâsmîr was never called Kasyapapura, but it was always called Kâsmira (Dr. Stein's Ancient Geography of Kasmir, pp. 11, 62). Kaspairia of Ptolemy has been identified with Multan. For the legend how the lake Satisara was desecrated and Kâmîra was created by Kasyapa, see Rajatarangini (Dr. Stein's Rajatarangini, Vol. I, p. 5). 1. The hermit. age of Rishi Kasyapa was on the Hari mountain, three miles from Srinagar. 2. Multan was also called Kasyapapura, the Kaspeira of Ptolemy, being founded by Kasyapa, the father of Hiranyakasipu (Alberuni's India, I, p. 298).
Kasyapî-Ganga-The river Sabarmati in Guzerat (Padma Purana, Uttara, ch. 52). Katadvipa Kâtwa in the district of Burdwan in Bengal (McCrindle's Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian, p. 187; Wilford in Asia. Rev., V., p. 278). It is a sacred place of pilgrimage to the Vaishnavas, where Chaitanya at the age of 24 embraced Danḍism after leaving his father's home, being initiated into its rites by a Gossain named Kesava Bharati. The hairs cut off from his head on the occasion have been preserved in a little temple. Kâtwa was called Murshidganj after the name of Murshid Kuli Khan, Nawab of Murshidabad. The old fort of Katwa where Ali Verdi Khan defeated the Mahrattas, was situated on a tongue of land between the Ajai and the Bhagirathi (Bholanauth Chunder's Travels of a Hindoo, Vol. I; Chaitanya-Bhagavata, Madhya Kh.). Chaitanya's autograph is preserved in a village called Dadur, 14 miles to the south of Katwa. Same as Kantakanagara and Kantaka-ditpa, the gradual corruptions of which are Kata-dvipa, Kâtâdia, and Kâtwâ. Krishnadas Kaviraj, the author of the Chaitanyacharitamrita lived at Jhâmatpur, 4 miles to the north of Katw&; Nannur, 16 miles to the south-west of Katwâ in the district of Birbhum, was the birth-place of the Vaishnava poet Chanḍidâs.
Katripura Tripura or Tipara (Allahabad Inscription); but Mr. Oldham supposes that the kingdom of Katripura included Kumaun, Almora, Garwal, and Kangra (JRAS., 1898, p. 198). Same as Kartripura.
Kaulam-Quilon in Travancore, once a great port on the Malabar coast (Yule's Marco Polo, Vol. II, p. 313, note).
Kauninda-See Kuninda.
Kausâmbl-Kosambi-nagar or Kosam, an old village on the left bank of the Jamuna, about thirty miles to the west of Allahabad. It was the capital of Vamsadesa or Vatayadesa, the kingdom of Udayana, whose life is given in the Brihat-Katha and Katha-sarit-sågara, II, ch. I. The Ratndvall, a drama by Harsha Deva, places its scene at Kaus&mbi (see Hastinapura). Buddha dwelt in the Ghosita-Arama of Kausâmbi (Chullavagga, pt. I, ch. 25). Udayana or Udena, as he was called by the Buddhists, was the son of King Parantapa: he married Vasuladatta or Vasava-datta, daughter of Chanda Prajjota,