Indian Antiquary Vol 51

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

Page 329

KRO
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KUH
Krokala-Same as Karakalla.
Krumu-The river Kunar or the Choaspes of the Greeks, which joins the Kabul river at some distance below Jalalabad (Rig Veda, X, 75-the Hymn called Nadistuti); it is also called the Kamah river. It has been identified also with the Koram river (McCrindle's Ptolemy, p. 95). See Kuramu. According to Drs. Macdonell and Keith, it is the river Kurum (Vedic Index, Vol. II) which joins the Indus near Isakhel.
Kshatri The country of the Kathaidi who lived between the Hydraotes (Ravi) and the Hyphasis (Bias), their capital being Saigala (McCrindle's Ptolemy, p. 157). Kshatriya-Kunda-Same as Kundapura (Sabdakalpadruma, s. v. Tirthankara). Kshemavati-The birth place of Krakuchandra, a former Buddha. It has been identified by P. C. Mukherji with Guțiva in the Nepalese Terai (P. C. Mukherji's Antiquities in the Tarai, Nepal, p. 55). See Kapilavastu.
Kshetra-Upanivesa-In its contracted form Upaniveša. See Hupian. Kshipra-Same as Sipra (Brahma P., ch. 43; Vamana P., ch. 83, v. 19). Kshira-Bhavani-12 miles from Srinagar in Kasmir. The goddess is within a Kundu or
reservoir of water which assumes different colours in different parts of the day.
Kshiragrama See Khiragrama.
Kshudraka Same as Sadraka; called also Kshudra (Padma P., Svarga Kh., ch. 3) and Kshaudraka (Pânini's Ashtadhyayî).
Kubha-1. The Kabul river, the Kophen or Kophes of the Greeks, which rises at the foot of the Kohi Baba from a spring called Sir-i-Chusma, 37 miles to the east of Kabul, and flowing through Kabul falls into the Indus just above Attock (Rig Veda, X, 75). It is the Nilah of the Muhammadan historian Abdul Qadir (JASB., 1842, p. 125). 2. The district through which the Kophes (Kophen) or the Kabul river flows. The name of Kabul is derived from the Vedic name of Kubha. It is the Koa of Ptolemy (McCrindle's Ptolemy, VII, ch. I, sec. 27) and Kophen of Arrian (McCrindle's Megasthenes and Arrian, p. 191.) The valley of the Kabul river is generally called Ningrahar or Nungnihar, the former being the corruption of the latter word which signifies nine rivers and they are the Surkhrud, the Gandamak, the Kurrussa, the Chiprial, the Hisaruk, the Kote, the Momunddurrah, the Koshkote, and the Kabul river (JASB., 1842, p. 117). Kubja-A tributary of the Narbada (Padma P., Bhûmi, ch. 63).
Kubjagriha-Same as Kalughira.
Kubjamraka-It has been identified by some with Hrishîkesa but the identification is not correct. It is a celebrated place of pilgrimage at some distance to the north of Hrishikesa, sacred to Vishnu. The Mahatmya of Kubjâmraka and Hrishikesa has been treated separately in the Vardha P., chs. 126 and 146 (Archivatára-sthala-vaibhavadarpanam, p. 108). It was the hermitage of Raibhya Rishi. It is also called Kubjâmra. According to the Kûrma P., Kubjâsrama or Kubjâmra is identical with Kanakhala (cf. Kurma P., Upari, ch. 34, v. 34, and ch. 36, v. 10).
uhe The Kabul river. The Vedic Kubha appears to have been corrupted into Kuhu during the Pauranic period. The river Sindhu (Indus) is said to pass through the country of the Kuhus, who are mentioned just after the people of Gândhâra and Urasâ in the Matsya P. (ch. CXX, v. 46 and ch. CXIII, v. 21). It is evidently the Koa of Ptolemy which has been identified by McCrindle with Kophen (McCrindle's Invasion of India by Alexander, p. 61). Bat according to Prof. Lassen, Koa or Koas of Ptolemy is not the Kophen or Kabul river. Ptolemy says that Koas is the most western river of India, but the westernmost part of India was the country of the Lampakas, who lived near the sources at the Koas. (JASB., 1840, p. 474).