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Udichya-The country on the north-western side of the river Saravati (Amarakosha,
Bhumi, V). Udipa-In South-Canara in the Karwar district, on the river Papana sini, where a Math
was established by MadhvAcharya called also Porņaprajna, the author of many of the commentaries on the Vedas (see Tuluva). The image of Krishna, which is called Udupa Krishna in the Chaitanya charitamrita (II, 9) and which was visited by Chaitanya, was established there by MadhvachArya who recovered it from a vessel which had foundered near the coast of Tuluva. MadhyAcharya wrote many of his works while residing at this town (A. K. Dutt's Religious Sects of the Hindus ; Chaitanya-charitamrita). He was born in 1199 A.D. and was educated at Ananteśvara (Literary Remains of Goldstijcker, vol. I, p. 248). Uđipa is evidently a corruption of Udupa (Bhavishya P., Pratisarga P., pt. III,
ch. 3, p. 35). Udra-Orissa. Udumvara-Same as Audumvara; Ordavari of Ptolemy. Udumvaravatt-Mentioned in Patañjali's Mahabhashya ; see Audumvara. UdupaSame as Udipa. Udyana-Udyana was situated to the north of Peshawar on the Swat river, but it is pro.
bable that it designated the whole hill region south of the Hindu Kush from Chitral to the Indus including Dardistan and portions of Swat and the Eusofzai country, now called the Swat-valley; in short, it is the country about Ghazni to the north-west of Kasmir (see Henry Yule's Marco Polo, vol. 1, p. 155). Mangala was the capital of Udyana; it is the Meng-ho-li of the Chinese travellers. Udyâna appertained to the ancient country
of Gandhára or Gandharva-dega. See Ujlanaka. Udyanta-Parvata-It appears to be the Brahmayoni hill at Gaya (Mahabharata, Bana P.,
ch. 84). Ugra-1. Kerala (Devi P., ch. 93; Hemachandra). 2. Same as Mahasthana (Padma P.,
I, ch. 42). Ujalikanagara-Jais, twenty miles east of Rai Bereli (Führer's MAI.). Ujant—The ancient town of UjAnî (Ujjayini of the Brihat-Dharma P., Pärva, ch. 14)
comprising the modern villages of Kograma, Mangalkot (Mangalakoshtha) and Aral, situated in the sub-division of Katwa in the district of Burdwan in Bengal. It is one of the Pithas. It is mentioned by Kavikankaņa in his Chandi (Sahitya-Parishat-Patrikd, 1320, p. 161; Trikändasesha) and in the Manasar-bhashan. Kograma was the merchant's quarter and the birth-place of Lochandås, the author of the Chaitanyamangala, whereas Mangalkot contained the king's palace. Ichhani is about two miles to the east of Ujans
on the Ajaya. Ullain-Ujin, the capital of Avanti or ancient Malwa. It is situated on the river Sipra.
Same as Ujjayinf. Asoka resided here in "263 B.C. as the Viceroy of his father Bindusara (Turnour's Mahavamsa, ch. V.) It was the birth-place of Mahindra, the son of Asoka. The Garddabhilla dynasty-a dynasty named after the most celebrated of its kings, reigned at Ujjayini. Garddabhilla offered violence to Saraswati, the sister of KalikâchArya who in revenge uprooted Garddabhilla and established the Saka kings at Ujjayini. Gardda. bhilla's son Vikramaditya destroyed the Sakas and inaugurated the Samvat era, for which see Kalikdcharyya-katha, & Jaina work. The commentary of the Kalpasutra (the celebrated Jaina work) contains the story of KAlikachArya who changed the Paryushana Parva to the fourth day (Merutunga's Therdvali; Samayasundara's Kalikdcháryya-katha, a MS. in the Sanskrit Callege Catalogue, p. 27). But there is much conflict of opinion regarding the identity of Vikramaditya and the founder of the Samyot era. Dr. Bhan. darkar, Fergusson, Vincent Smith and other authorities identify him with Chandra Gupta II who was called Vikramaditya. He was the son of Samudra Gupta and Datta Devi.
