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Pinâkini-The river Pennar in the Madras Presidency (Skanda P., Mahes. kh., Arunachala Mâhât., ch. 2; Sewell's Arch. Surv, of South India, Vol. I, pp. 123, 129). It was also called Pinâka. It is the Tyana of Ptolemy. It rises among the Nundidroog mountains in the province of Mysore, where on account of its northerly course it is called the Uttara Pinâkini (Hamilton's East India Gazetteer). The Dakshina Pinâkinî is the same as Papaghni. Pindaraka-Tirtha-Near Golagar in Guzerat, sixteen miles to the east of Dwarka (Mbh., Vana P.) It was at this place that the Rishis cursed Samba, Krishna's son, saying that he would give birth to a Mushala which would destroy the Yadu race (Bhagavata, XI, p. 1).
Pishtapura-Pithapura in the Godavari district, it was conquered by Samudra Gupta. It was the ancient capital of Kalinga (Smith's Early Hist. of India, p. 284). Same as Gayâpåda.
Plakshaprasravana-See Sarasvati (1).
Polaura-According to Ptolemy it is the name of a town near the Kambyson mouth of the Ganges (McCrindle's Ptolemy, 'p. 72). Same as Kola-Parvatapura (see my Early Course of the Ganges in I.A., 1921).
Potall-Same as Potana (Jataka, iii, p. 2).
Potana-Paithan on the north bank of the Godavari. It was the capital of Assaka or Asmaka or Maharashtra (Mahd-Govinda Suttanta in the Dialogues of the Buddha, Pt. II; Jataka, iii, p. 2). See Pratishthana.
Prabhasa-1. Somnath in the Junagar state, Kathiawad. It is also called Devapattana and Berawal; Somnath is properly the name of the temple and the city is called Devapattana (Yule's Marco Polo, Vol. II, p. 334 note). "The neighbourhood of Pattana" (which contains the celebrated temple of Somnath at the south-western corner) "is esteemed specially sacred by the Hindoos as the scene of Krishna's death and apotheosis. A small river known to the Hindu devotees as the Raunakshi, empties itself into the sea, at the distance of about a mile to the eastward of Pattana. At a particular spot on this river, sacred as that of Krishna's death, are a ghât and a few temples" (JASB., Vol. VII, p. 869-Note of a Journey in Girnar). The reservoir called Bhât-kunda or Bhalakakunda at a short distance behind Somnath's temple is traditionally the scene of Krishna's death, which took place on the first day of Kali yuga (Bhagavata, XII, 2); the place where the Yadavas fell fighting with one another is also called Amarapuri Gopitala. Raunakshi is another name for the river Sarasvati (Vamana P., ch. 84). Somnath is known to the Jainas under the title of Chandra Prabhasa or Chandraprabha-prabhasa. It was formerly frequented by a very large number of pilgrims from all parts of India during an eclipse of the moon. Chandra (the moon) is said to have been cured of consumption, with which he was cursed, by bathing in the river Sarasvati and worshipping Mahadeva since known as Somanatha (Šiva P., Pt. 1, ch. 45; Mbh., Šalya P., ch. 36). Berawal is two miles to the north-west of the Somanatha temple. The celebrated shrine of Somanatha, which is one of the twelve great Liigas of Mahadeva (see the south-western corner of the Amaresvara), occupies an elevated site on town of Pattana overlooking the sea and close to the wall. For a description of the temple of Somanâtha, see Notes on a Journey to Girnar in JASB., Vol. VII (1838), p. 865. Somanatha, also called Somes varanatha, was the family god of the Chalukya kings of Guzerat. The wooden temple of Somanatha was replaced by a stone temple by Kumarapala, king of Anahillapattana, at the request of Hemachandra, the author of the celebrated grammar called Siddhahema and the lexicography called Abhidhana-chintamani (Tawney
