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spingeri-matha-Same as śpingagiri. berpotho-Bians, ninety miles east of Jajpur Indian Antiquary, XV). It was also called
Pathayampuri (see Pathayampurt). Sriranga-kshetra-Same as Srirangam. Srirangam-Seringham, two miles to the north of Trichinopoly in the province of Madras.
It contains the celebrated temple of Sri Rangam, an image of Vishnu. The temple was built by the kings of the Nayak dynasty of Pandya. It is mentioned as a place of pilgrimage in Malaya P. (ch. 22, v. 44) and Padma P. (Uttara kh., ch., 90). Sriranga Mahat. mya forms a part of the Brahmanda Purana, an abstract of which is given in the JASB., 1838, p. 385. Ramachandra is said to have resided at this place on his way to Lanka. Ramanuja, the celebrated founder of a Vaishnavite sect, lived and died here at the middle of the 11th century. He was born at Sriperambudur or Sri Permatoor in the Chingleput district in 1016 A.D. About a mile from the temple of Sri Raigam at a place called Tiruvanaikaval the temple of Jam bukesvara is situated. Jam bukesvara is the Apa (water) image of Mahadeva, being one of the five Bhautika-murttis or elementary images (see Chidambara). It is a phallio image around which water is continually bubbling up from the figures between the tiles on the floor, evidently caused by some artesian well.
It was visited by Chaitanya (Chaitanyacharitamrita). Cf. Kalahasti. śrfranga-pattana-Seringapatam in Mysore (Garuda P., I, 81). ári-salla-1. It is situated in the Karnal country in the Balaghaut Ceded districts, and
on the south side of the Křishņ& river, at the north-western extremity of the Karnul territory, about 102 miles W.S.W. of Dharanikota and 82 miles E.N.E. of Karnul and 50 miles from the Krishna station of the G.I.P. Railway. Dr. Burgess found it to be an isolated hill about 1570 feet high, surrounded on three sides by the river Krishna and on the fourth partly by the Bhimanakollam torrent. The present temple dates from the sixteenth century and resembles the Hazara Rama temple of Bijayanagara (Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati, p. 7; Burgess's Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, p. 233; Hamilton's East India Gazetteer, Perwuttum). It is also called Sri Parvata and Parwattam. It contains the temple of MallikArjuna, one of the twelve great Liigas of Mahadeva and Brahmarambha Devi (Baráha Purana, ch.85; Madhavacharya's Sarkara-vijaya, ch. 10; Malatf-Madhava, Acts I, IX). From the name of the goddess, the mountain was called Brahmarambha-giri or briefly Brahmaragiri-the Po-lo-mo-ki-li of Hiuen Tsiang, where Nagarjuna lived. For a description of the temple see Asiatic Researches, 1798. See Amarelvara. Påtala-Ganga, which is & branch of the Krishna, flows past Srisailam. King Vema, son of Prola, built a flight of steps and a hall at Srisailam in the 12th century A.D. (Ep. Ind., Vol. III, pp. 59, 64, 291). 2. A portion or peak of the Malaya or Cardamum mountain which is the southern portion of the Western Ghats. It was visited by Chaitanya (Chaitanya-charitamrita, II, ch. 9; Syamlal
Goswami's Gaurasundara, p. 216. śrl-sthånaka-Thana, in the province of Bombay; it was once the capital of Northern
Kookana (see kon kapa). It was the seat of a reigning family called Silahara, hence it Wag called Puri of the Silaharas (Da Cunha's Hist. of Chaul and Bassein, pp. 130, 168). srtyard dhana-pura-Kandy in Ceylon, built by Walgam Abha Maharaja (Tennant's Ceylon,
Vol. I, p. 414; Dathavamsa, Introduction, p. xix). But this identification has not been approved by Dr. Rhys Davids who agrees with Mr. K. J. Pohath that Srivarddhangpura is about three and half miles from Damba-deniya in the Kurunegalla distriot (The Questions of King Milinda, p. 303). See Dantapura. Bishop Copleston is also of opinion that Srivarddhanapura was not the ancient name of Kandy. Srivarddhanapura still erigts: it was founded by ParAkramabahu III in the 13th century (Bishop Copleston's Buddhism in Magadha and Ceylon, p. 236).
