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Rudra-Gaye-In Kolhapura (Pa:ima P., Uttara, ch. 62). Rudrakoti-1. In Kurukshetra (Padma P., Svarga, ch. 11). 2. On the Nerbuda near its
source (Padma P., Swarga, Adi, ch. 6). Rudrapada-In Mahalaya or Omkaranatha, where Mahadeva (Rudra) left bis foot-mark
(Kurma P., Pt. II, ch. 36). Rurumunda Parvata-Same as Urumunda Parvata (Divyávadâna, Cowell's ed., che, XXVI,
p. 349; XXVII).
Sábhramati-The river SAbarmati in Guzerat (Padma P., Uttara kh., ch. 52). It rises from
Nandikuņda (ch, 53) or the modern Dhanbar Lake near Mirpura, twenty miles north of
Doongapura, and falls into the Gulf of Kambay. Sadanira-1. The river Karatoy& which flows through the districts of Rungpur and Dinajpur,
the ancient Pundra (Amara kosha, Patala, V; Tithitatva, p. 796). The river is said to have been formed by the perspiration which flowed from the hand of Siva at the time of his marriage with Durgå. 2. A river mentioned in the satapatha-Brahmana as being situated between Videha (Tirhut) and Kosala (Oudh); the river was the limit of the Aryan colonisation and conquest on the east at the time when the Satapu ha-Brahmana, was composed by Yajfavalkya (see Satapatha-Brahmana, IX, 4). It has been identified with the river Gandak (Eggeling's Introduction to the Sata patha-Brahmana in the Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XII, p. 104), but in the Mahabharata (Sabha P., ch. 20), it has been placed between the Gandaki and the Sarayu, and in the list of rivers Sadânira is mentioned as a distinct river from the Karatoya or the Gandak (see Mh., Bhishma P., ch. 9). Mr. Pargiter identifies it with the Rapti, a tributary of the Sarayu (see his Märkandeya P.,
c. 57, p. 294). Ścala-Same as Sakala, the capital of Milinda or Menander, king of the Yonakas or Bactrian
Greeks (Milinda Pañha, Vol. XXXV of SBE, p. 1). The Saúkheyya monastery was
near Sagala. It was the "aptial of Madra-desa (Jataka, Vol. IV, p. 144). Sågara-sangama-A celebrated place of pilgrimage still called by that name or Ganga-sågara
near the mouth of the Ganges, said to have been the hermitage of Rishi Kapila, same as Kapilasrama. (Brihat-Dharma Purana, Púrva khanda, ch. 6; Mh., Vana, ch. 114). The temple in honour of Kapila Muni in Sagar Island was erected in 430 A.D., but it was washed away by the sea in 1842. It onoe contained a population of 200,000 (JASB., 1850, p. 538,
note). Sahaniana-Same as Sanjan (Hariva vida. ch. 33). Sahasarama-Sasiram in the district of Shahabad. Asoka's inscription is on Chandan
Pir's hill situated on the east of the modern town. It is ninety miles to the south-west of Patna. Within the town is situated the tomb of Sher Shah in an artificial tank. For Pratápa Dhavala's inscription of 1173 A.D, and Asoka's inscription on Chandan Sahid
hill, see JASB., 1839, p. 354. Sahyadri - Ihe northern parts of the Western Ghats north of the river Kaveri , the portion
south of the river Kaveri was called Malaya-giri (see Mahavira-charita, Act V, v. 3). Sahyadrija --The river Kaveri (Śiva P., Vidyesvarasamhita, ch. X). Saibala-Same as siválaya (Brihat-Siva P., II, ch. 4). Saibala-girl-Ramagiri or Ramtek mountain, 24 miles to the north of Nagpur in the Central
Provinces. At the foot of this mountain a sadra, performed asоeticism, on account of which he was killed by Ramachandra (Ramayana, Uttara k., ch. 88). See Ramagui and Samba ka-Abrama. It was situated on the southern side of the Vindhyâ range (Ibid.).
