Sambodhi 1996 Vol 20

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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DINESH CHANDRA
SAMBODHI
4. Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. XIV, Oxford, 1908, p. 311, notes that Mahabharata
(Vana P.87) mentions it as a famous city and states that whoever bathes in the Lake of gods is as meritorious as he who bestows in charity one thousand cows.
It also mentions that the Tirtha called Hiranya-vindu is also situated at this place. 5. Padmapurana, Svarga, Ch. 19, vs. 130. 6. IGO, ibid. 7. ibid. 8. Dey, Nandalal - Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval India, Oriental
Book Printers Corporation, Delhi, 1971. 9. IGO, ibid. 10. ibid. 11. Perista Accounts Ref.; Martin Brice - Forts and Fortreses, New York, 1990; Begde,
P. V. - Forts and Palaces of India, New Delhi, 1982. 12. Nizami, Hasan - Ref. ibid. 13. Jor. of Asiatic Society of Bengal, XVII (1848), p. 313. 14. IGO, ibid. 15. Vämana-purana, Ch. 84; Dey, Nandalal, op. cit., pp. 84-85. 16. ibid. 17. Epigraphica Indica, Vo. I, p. 218. 18. IGO, ibid. 19. ibid., p. 312.