Indian Antiquary Vol 52

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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Arch. S. Rep., V, p. 129). Lakshmana's son Chandraketu was made king of Malla-desa by his uncle Ramachandra (Ramayana, Uttara K., ch. 115). 2. The country in which the Pâraśnâth hills are situated (McCrindle's Megasthenes and Arrian, pp. 63, 139), that is, portions of the districts of Hazaribagh and Manbhum. The Purdnas and the Mahabharata (Bhishma, ch. 9) mention two countries by the name of Malla, one in the west and the other in the east. 3. At the time of Buddha, the Mallas lived at Påvå and Kusinagara where he died. The ruins at Aniruddwa near Kasia (ancient Kusinagara) in the district of Gorakhpur have been identified with the palaces of the Malla nobles (see also Mbh., Sabha, ch. 29).
Malla-Parvata The Pâraénâth hill in Chhota-Nagpur, the mount Maleus of the Greeks (McCrindle's Megasthenes and Arrian, pp. 63, 139). See Samet-sikhara.. Mount Maleus has perhaps been wrongly identified with the Mandâra hill in the district of Bhagalpur in the Bihar province (Bradley-Birt's Story of an Indian Upland, p. 24).
Mallara Travancore; it is a contraction of Malabar (Chaitanya-charitâmpita, Pt. II, ch. 9). Travancore is also called Malaya-khandam.
Mallarâshtra-Same as Maharashtra (Garett's Class. Dic.; Mbh., Bhishma, ch. 9). Mallari-Linga Belâpur in the Raichur district, Nizam's territory, where Siva killed Mallasura (Arch. S. Lists: Nizam's Territory, p. 35). See, however, Manichuḍâ. Mallikarjuna-See Sri-salla (Ananda Giri's Sankaravijaya, ch. 55, p. 180). Malyavâna-Girl-1. The Anagundi hill on the bank of the Tuugabhadra. According to the Hemakosha, it is the same as Prasravana-giri; but according to Bhavabhuti, Mâlya. vâna-giri and Prasravana-giri are two different hills (Uttara Ramacharita, Act I): see Prasravana-giri.. Its present name is Phatika (Shphațika) Šila, where Ramachandra resided for four months after his alliance with Sugriva (Ramayana, Aranya, ch. 51). Ac. cording to Mr. Pargiter, Malyavâna and Prasravana are the names of the same mountain or chain of hills, but he considers that Prasravana is the name of the chain and Mâlyavâna is the peak (The Geo. of Rama's Exile in JRAS., 1894, pp. 256, 257). 2. The Karakorum mountain between the Nila and Nishadha (q.v.) mountains (Mbh., Bhishma, ch. 6). Manasa-1. Lake Mânas-sarovar, situated in the Kailâsa Mountain in Hûnadeśa in Western Tibet (JASB., XVII, p. 166; Ramayana, Bâla K., ch. 24). Its Hunnic name is Cho Mapan. It has been graphically described by Moorcroft in the Asiatic Researches, vol. XII, p. 375; see also JASB., 1838, p. 316, and Ibid., 1848, p. 127. According to Moorcroft's estimate, it is fifteen miles in length (east to west) by eleven miles in breadth (north to south). The circumambulation of the lake is performed in 4, 5 or 6 days according to the stay of the pilgrims in the eight Gumbas or guard-houses on the bank of the lake (JASB., 1848, p. 165). On the south of the lake is the Gurla range. Sven Hedin says, "Even the first view from the hills caused us to burst into tears of joy at the wonderful magnificent landscape and its surpassing beauty. The oval lake lies like an enormous turquoise embedded between two of the finest and most famous mountain giants of the world, the Kailas in the north and Gurla Mandatta in the south and between huge ranges, above which the mountains uplift their crowns of bright white eternal snow Hedin's Trans-Himalaya, II, p. 112). There are three approaches from the United Provinces to the Holy lakes and Kailâs,-over the Lipu Lekh Pass, Untadhura Pass, and the Niti Pass, the first being the easiest of all (Sherring's Western Tibet, p. 149). 2. UttaraMânasa and Dakshina-Mânasa are two places of pilgrimage in Gaya (Chaitanya-Bhagvata, ch. 12).
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