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srlbalkantha-Same as Balkaotha (Chaitanya-charitamrita, II, ch. 9). śrlbhoja-Palembang in Sumatra, a seat of Buddhist learning in the seventh century, much frequented by the Chinese pilgrims (Beal's Life of Hiuen Tsiang : Introduction;
I-tsing's Record of the Buddhist Religion : Takakusu's Introduotion, p. xliv). srthatta-Sylhet (Yogini Tantra, Pt. II, ch. e). Srikakola-It is a corruption of Srikankali (see erikarik&11.) srikankali-Chikakol in the Northern Circars. It is one of Pithas where Sati's loin
is said to have fallen. grikantha-Same as Kurujangala. Its capital was BilAspura, thirty-three miles north
west of Shaharanpura (Kathdsaritsagara, ch. 40). Bana Bhatta in his Harshacharita (oh. iii, p. 108) says that Sthånvisvara (modern Thaneswar) was the capital of Srikantha which was the kingdom of Prabhakara varddhana, the father of Harsha or SilAditya II and of his brother Rajyavarddhana; Harsha Deva removed his seat of government
from Sthânesvars to Kanonj. grikshetra-1. Puri in Orissa. Ananga Bhima Deo of the Ganga dynasty built the
temple of Jagannatha in 1198 A.D. under the superintendence of his minister named Paramahamsa Rajpai at a cost of forty to fifty lace of rupees. He reigned from 1175 to 1202 A.D. But recently it has been proved that the sanctum of the temple of Jagannath was built by Chora Ganga Deva, king of Kalinga, to commemorate the conquest of Orissa early in the 12th century and Ananga Bhima Deva enlarged the temple, built the Jagamohan and made arrangements for the worship. According to Mr. Fergusson, the temple itself cocupies the site where formerly stood the Dagoba containing the left canine tooth of Buddha (Havell's Hist. of Indian and Eastern Architecture, p. 429).. The town was then called Dantapura and was the ancient capital of Kalinga (see Dantapura and Kalinga.) The Gangavamal kings reigned in Orissa after the Kesari kinge from 1131 to 1533 A.D., the first king of the dynasty was Churang or Sarang Deva generally called Chodganga, and the last king was the son of Pratap Rudra Deva who died in 1632 and who was a contemporary of Chaitanya (Hunter's Oriesa and Sterling's Orissa). See Utkala. The temple of Bimala Devi at Puri is one of the fifty-two Pithas (Devf-Bhagavata, bk, VII, ch. 30) where the two lege of Sati are said to have fallen Besides the tem. ple of Jagannath, the other sacred places at Puri are the Indradyuma-sarovara, Gundachika or Gunjika-badi or Gundiv&-mandapa of the Puranas (Gundachika being the name of Indradyumna's wife), MAst's horise; Chandantaiko or Narendra (tank) where the Chandana-yatra of Jagannatha takes place in the month of Baisakha every year : the 18 Nalds or the bridge of 18 arches built by Kabira Narasinha Deva, king of Orissa, in 1390 A,D, where the pilgrim tax was formerly collected and was the western gate of the town of Pari. Chaitanya-mahaprabhu lived at Kasi Misra's house called Radh. kanta's Math. Here in a small room he is said to have lived ; in this room are kept his wooden Sandals (khadam), hiß water-pot (kamandalu) and a piece of quilt (katha); at Sarvabhauma's house at a short distance, he used to hear the Bhagavata-Purdna. the walls of the reading-room still contain the portraits of Sarvabhauma, Chaitanya and RAJA Pratapa Rudra Deva in fresco. Near Sarvabhauma's house is a house where Haridasa lived ; a miraculous Vakula tree (Mimusop, Elengi) grows here forming an aroh below which Harid&sa, Chaitanya's disciple, used to sit. Through a crack in the knee of Tota Gopinatha, Chaitanya Deva is said to have disappeared ; this temple is in the skirt of the town. For the other places of pilgrimage of Srikshetra, see Purushottama-kshetra. 2. Prome in Burma, or rather Yathemyo, five miles to the east of Prome, founded by Duttabaung 101 years after the Nirvana of Buddha (Arch. 8. Rep., 1907-8, p. 133).
