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Ghart-The united stream of the Bias and the Sutlej is called Ghara, but the natives call
it Nai (JASB., 1837, p. 179). Ghazipur-The districte of Ghazipur, Jaunpur and Balia in the United Provinces apper
tained to the ancient Dharmaran ya (see Balia). It is a Mabomedan town. It contains the tomb of Lord Cornwallis and the ruins of a handsome palace of Nawab Kasim Ali Khan, in the banquetting-hall of which was a deep trench which was used to be filled with rose water wher. the Nawab and his friends were feasting there. (Chunder's Travels of
a Hindoo). Giriyak-Same as Giriyek. Girnar-1. Raivata. 2. Raivataka. 3. Ujjayanta. 4. Girinagara. 5. Udayanta,--the
Junagar hill in Guzerat. It was the hermitage of Rishi Dattatreya. Sata was killed by Balarama at this place. It is also one of the five hills sacred to the Jaing, containing
the temples of Nemináth and Parávan&th. Girigek-The IndragilA hill, on the southern border of the district of Patna, ten miles to the
south of Bihar (town), comprising the ancient Buddhist village called 1. Giriyek. 2. Ambasanda, on the river Pañchâna. On one of the peaks of this hill is situated what is called Jarasandha-ka-Baithak, which is a Dagoba or tope (stôpa), erected, according to
Hiuen Tsiang, in honour of a Hamsa (goose). It is Fa Hian's "Hill of the Isolated Rock." Goa Gopakavana, in the presidency of Bombay. Godávart-The river. 1. Dakshina-Gaugå. 2. The Gautami. 3. The Gomati. 4. The
God&vari. 6. The Gautami-Ganga. 6. The Nanda. 7. The God. It has its source in the Brahmagiri mountain near the village called Tryambaka. The portion of the river which lies between the confluence of the Pranahita and the Ocean was the MahAsals of
the Padma Purana and Maisolos of the Greeks. Godna-Gautama-Asrama at Revelganj, seven miles to the west of Chh&pr& (see Ahlari).
The place however appears to have derived its name from the circumstance that Gautama (Buddha) crossed the Ganges at this place after leaving Pataliputra. Godna is a corruption of Godána. Raja Janaka is said to have made a gift of cows at this place in order
to expiate his sin for killing a Brahmin. Goga-The river Sulakshini which falls into the Ganges. Gogrå-Same as Ghågrå. Gokarna-I. Same as Gendia. II. 1. Śleshmätaka. 2. Uttara Gokarna, two miles to
the north-east of Pasupatinatha in Nepal in the Bagmati. Gokul (Purana)-1. Gokula. 2. Braja. 3. Mahåvana, six miles south-west of Mathura
across the Yamuna, where Krishna was reared up by Nanda during his infanoy. Same as Mahavana. The name of Braja was extended to Brindaban and the neighbouring villages, the scene of Krishna's early life. Gokul or new Gokula which was founded by Ballabh charya is the water-side suburb of Mahávans which has been identified by Growse with
Kliso boras of the Greeks. Golkonda-Kala-kunda, about seven miles from Hyderabad in the Nizam's territory. The
Beat of government was removed from Golkonda to Hyderabad in 1589. Gomukh-Fifteen miles north of Gangotri. Gonda-1. Gonardda. 2. Gunanda. 3. Gauda in Oudh, it was a sub-division of Uttara
Kosala, the capital of which was Sråvasti. The whole of Uttara-Kosala was called Ganda. Gonda is considered by some to be the corruption of Gonardda, the birth-place
of Patañjali, author of the Mahabhashya. Gondwana---1. Dakshina Kosala (
ne Berar). 2. MahA-kosala ; it includes Wairagarh in the district of Chanda, about eighty miles from Nagpur. It is the Gad-Katangah of the Mahomedan historians, governed by the celebrated heroine Durgavati.
