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Savarnagrama--Sonargaon, which is now a collection of insignificant villages, such as Magrd.
para, Painam, Goaldi and Aminpur in Bikrampura in the Narainganja sub-division of the district of Dacca, is situated on the opposite side of Munshiganja, on the river Dhale. svari, about 13 miles to the south-east of Dacca. It is the Souanagoura of Ptolemy. It was the capital of Eastern Bengal before Bakhtiar Khilji's invasion in 1203; it war famous for its fine muslins (Dr. Wise: JASB., 1874, p. 83: Ananda Bhatta's Balidiu. charitam, oh. 1; Taylor's Dacca, p. 106; Rennell's Memoir, 1785, p. 49). It flourisbed at the time of the Vaisya (merchant) named Sanaka who migrated to Bengal from Ramgad, forty-five miles to the north-west of Jaipur, in the time of Adisura, king of Bengal, who conferred on him the title of Suvarna Baộik. According to Mr. BradleyBirt, the descendants of Lakshman Sena, after Bakhtiyar Khilji's easy victory over him in Nadia, fled to Sonargaon on account of its secure position and lived there till the time of Danuj Roy, the grandson of Lakshman Sena, who submitted to Emperor Balin, when the latter went to chastise his rebel viceroy Tughril Khan. Since that date for three or four centuries up to the time of Isha Khan, who lived in the reign of Akbar and who had married Sona Bibi, the widowed daughter of Chând Roy, zemindar of Bikrampur, Sonargaon was the headquarters of Mahomedan rule in Eastern Bengal. (For the history of Sonargaon, see Mr. Bradley-Birt's Romance of an Eastern Capital, ch. III.) On the fall of Sonargaon, Daoca became the capital of Bengal, during the administration of Islam Khan, governor of Bengal under Jehangir: In 1704 the capital was
removed from Dacca to Murshidabad. Suvarnamånasa-The river Sona-kosi (Kalika P., ch: 77; Bisvakosha, 8.v. Kamarup: ) 1
Nee Mahåkausika Suvarnamukhart-The river Suvarnamukhi or Suvarnamukhari on which Kalahasti
is situated (see Kalahasti). The name is mentioned in the Siva P. II. ch. 10. Suvarnarekha-1. The river Palasini which flows by the side of the Girnar hill (see
Girinagara). 2. A river in Orissa, which is still called by that name (see Kapisa). Suvastu-1. The Swat river now called by the name of Sihonpedra Nadi (Mahabharata,
Bhishma, ch. IX), the Suastos of Arrian. It is the Subhavastu of Hiuen Tsiang (800 JASB., 1839, p. 307 ; 1840, p. 474-Lassen). The united stream of the Panjkoora and the Swet rivers falls into the Kabul river. Pushkaravati or Pushkalavati, the capital of Gândhara or Gandharva-desa, stood on this river near its junction with the Kabul river (see Pushkalavati). The Swat river has its source in the fountain called NagaApalala. 2. Swat (Panini's (Ashtadhy dyf). Buddhist writers included Swat in the country of Udyana. The country of Swat is now inhabited by the Yusufzais. It was at Swat that Raja Sivi or, properly speaking, Usinara of the Mahabh drata and the Sivi-Jataka, gave his own flesh to the hawk to save the dove. The capital of Sivi of the Sivi-Jataka was Aritthapura or Arishthapura (Jataka, Cam. Ed., IV, p. 250). Charbag is the present capital of Swat (JASB., 1839, p. 311). See bibl. But according to the Maha-Ummagga-Jataka (Jataka, VI, p. 215, Cam. Ed.), Sivi was between Bideha
and Panchala. Sväml-tirtha--1. See Kumara-swami (Karma P., Upari, ch. 36, vs. 19, 20). 2. In
Tirupati in Madras, Svatt-Same as Svett. Svayambhunatha Simbhunatha, a celebrated place of pilgrimage in Nepal, about a mile
and a half to the west of Katmandu. It contains a Buddhist Chaitya (typified by a pair of eyes on the crown of edifice), dedicated to Svayambhunatha, a Manasi or Mortal Buddha. It is associated with Maßjusri Bodhisatva who camo from Maha-China to Nepal (Wright's History of Nepal, pp. 23, 78). The Chaitya is situated on the Gopuchchha
