Book Title: Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra
Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur
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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SOTRA
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Himavata
Himavata finds mention also in other Jaina texts, Brähmại. cals and Buddhist* works and foreign accounts."
It is the great Himālayas lying on the north of India and stretching from the eastern to the western sea like the string of a bow (Kārmukasya yathāgunah).
Vindhyagiri
Vindhyagiri appears as one of the Kula-Parvatas in otber Indian texts and it is identical with Ptolemy's ouindion? w is the origin of the rivers Namados (Narmadā) and Nanagouna (Tāptī). The evidences from the Purāņic records and Ptolemy show that the Vindhya was a mountain of central India, having three distinct divisions, viz. Pāripätra, Vindhya proper and Riksa in the limited sense. But in wider sense the long range of the Vindhya corresponds to the whole chains of hills from Gujerāt to the Gayā district, stretching on both sides of the Narmadā.
Vipula
Vipula-Parrata is identical with Vepulla mountain of the Pali texts® which was one of the five hills protecting the city of Girivraja (Rājagrha). It corresponds to the Vipulācala of Rājgir (Bihar).
Vebhāra (Vaibhāra)
Vebhāra mountain was one of the five hills surrounding the ancient city of Girivraja as recorded in the Buddhist works and
1,Jambuddiva Pannatti, 1, 9. ? Rg-Veda, X, 121, 4; Atharva-Veda, XII, 1, II; Mark. Pu, 54,
24 ; 57. 59; Mbh. Vanaparva, 253. 3 Paramatthajotikā, II, p. 66; Malalasekara, Dict. of the Pāli
proper names 1. p. 1325. * Ptolemy's (Imãos) Ancient India, p. 19. 6 Mārkundeya Purana, 54, 24 ; 57, 59,
Markandeya Purana, 54, 21; 57, 59. ? Ptolemy's Ancient India, p. 77. 8 Pali texts (D.P.P.N. 11, 721); See also the Mahabharata, 1,
113, 27 ; 1.H.Q. 1939. 9 Pāli texts (D.P.P.N, II, 721).
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