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Siprâ-A river in Malwa on which Ujjain is situated.
Sirindhra-Sirhind (Brahmanda P., Purva, ch. 50). It is the Sirindha of the Barahasamhita (ch. 14). See Satadru.
sirovana Talkâd, the capital of the ancient Chela or Chera, forty miles to the east of Seringapatam in Mysore, now buried in the sands of the Kâverî (Archâvaiára-sthalavaibhava-darpanam of Madhura Kavi Sarma). See Talakada.
sita-1. According to Mr. Csoma, the Sîtâ is the modern Jaxartes (JASB., 1838, p. 282). It rises in the plateau south of Issyk-kul lake in the Thṭan-shan (McCrindle's Ptolemy, p. 280). Jaxartes is also called Sir-Daria, and Sir is evidently a corruption of Sîtâ and Daria means a river (Matsya P., ch. 120). Sîtâ is also identified with the river Yarkand or Zarafshan on which the town of Yarkand is situated. From the names of the places as mentioned in the Brahmanda Purana (ch. 51) through which the Sîtâ flows, its identification with the Jaxartes appears to be correct, and the Mahabharata (Bhishma Parva, ch. II) also says that it passes through Saka-dvîpa¡ See Sila. 2. The river Chandrabhaga (Chinab): see Lohitya-sarovara (Kalika P., chs. 22, 82). 3. The river Alakanandâ, on which Badarikâśrama is situated Mbh., Vana, ch. 145, v. 49).
Sitadra-The river Sutlej.
sitambara Chidambara in the Province of Madras.
Sitaprastha--The river Dhabalâ or Budha-Râptî. Same as Bâhuda. sitoda-sarovara-The Sarik-kul lake in the Pamir. See Chakshu. (Markand. P., ch. 56). sivalaya-1. Ellora, Ellur or Berulen, forty miles from Nandgaon, one of the stations of the G.I.P. Railway and seven miles from Daulatabad. It contains the temple of Ghus. rîne sa or Ghrishnesa or Ghusmesa, one of the twelve great Liigas of Mahadeva men tioned in the Siva Purana (Pt. I, chaps. 38, 58). See Amare vara. The Padma Purana and the Siva Purana (I, ch. 58) place the temple of Ghuśrînesa at Devagiri (Deogiri or Daulatabad). The village Ellora is about three quarters of a mile to the west of the celebrated caves of Ellora (see Ilbalapura and Elapura). A sacred Kunda called Śivalaya, round which the image of the god is carried in procession at the Sivaratri festival, has given its name to the place. Ahalyâbâi, widow of Khande Rao, the only son of Malhar Rao Holkar, constructed a temple and a wall round the Kunda (Antiquities of Bidar and Aurangabad Districts by Burgess). The Brahmanical Cave temple at Ellora called Râvan-ka-Khai contains the figures of the Seven Matrikas (divine mothers) with their Vâhanas namely, Châmundâ with the owl, Indrânî with the elephant, Varâhî with the boar, Vaishnavi or Lakshi with Garuda, Kaumârî with the peacock, Maheśvari with the bull and Brahmi or Sarasvati with the goose. Siva-paura-The country of the Siaposh (Siva-pausa), perhaps the letter' ra' in paura is
a mistake for sa. See Ujjânaka (Matsya P., ch. 120).
Eivi-According to the Vessantara Játaka (Jataka, Cam. Ed., VI, p. 246), the capital of Śivi was Jetuttara which has been identified by General Cunningham with Nagari, 11 miles north of Chitore in Rajputana, where many coins were found bearing the name of "Śivi Janapada" (Arch. Surv. Rep., VI, p. 196; JASB., 1887, p. 74). Hence Sivi may be identified with Mewar (see Jetuttara); it is the Sivika of the Brihat-Samhita (ch. 14). But see Madhyamika. According to the Sivi Jataka and Maha-Ummaga Játaka (Ját., IV, p. 250; VI, p. 215 respectively) the capital of Sivi was Ariṭṭhapura which perhaps was also called Dvârâvatî (Jat., VI, p. 214). The story of Usînara, king of Sivi, who gave the flesh of his own body to save the life of a dove is related in the Mahabharata (Vana, chs. 130, 131). Both Fa Hian and Hiuen Tsiang place the scene of this story in Udyâna now called the Swat valley. But according to the Mahd-Ummagga Jataka the country of Sivi was between the kingdoms of Bideha and Pañchâla. According to the Mahabharata (Anusas., ch. 32) Śivi
