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TILAKAMANJARĪ OF DHANAPĀLA
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Pañcasaila has been described by Dhanapāla as an island forming an intermediary to the Southern ocean.
“सर्वीपानां पंचर्शलो नाम दक्षिणस्य सलिलराशेरन्तरद्वीप:'""
and the mountain Ratnakūta has been called the crest ornament of the Pañcaśaila island.
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Simhala is obviously Ceylon which is associated by Trikāta mountain, Rangaśāla its capital had Candraketu for its Lord who even had a source of consternation for the wicked vassals asking near the mountain Suvela. (TM II. p.250). Nandīśvara has been described as a chief island surrounded by the Lord of the streams i.e. the ocean also named Nandīśvara.
"रामणीयकेन सकलद्वीपानामपारजलपूरितान्तरिक्षेण सर्वतः कृतपरिक्षेपं नन्दीश्वरनाम्ना नन्दीनाथेन नन्दीश्वराभिधानं प्रधानद्वीपम्
Sumāli god had gone to this island to see the beauty of a shrine of Jina. Sir Monier William identifies it to a place held sacred by the Jainas. Haimavatavarşa
According to the Great Epic (Mahābhārata)*(55 Ir ad ad hadi 44 R ent a au madag:
1 0 fachar 4r4G-7) the Haimavata region was situated just to the west of Nepāla (Nepālavişaya). It mainly comprised the Kulinda Visaya representing the region of high mountains in which the sources of the Ganges, Yamunā and Sataluja lay. It may thus be taken to include parts of the modern Himācala Pradeśa and adjoining tracts and some parts of Dehra Dun.
The eastern Himālayan region extending up to Assam and Manipura roughly constituted the Haimavata division of the Jambūdvīpa in respect of which Asoka introduced the Nābhākas and Nābhapamtis in his Rock edict XIII.
The Himālaya region (Haimavatapradesa) of the Jambūdvipa (continent of India) extended northwards according to the Pāli accounts, as far as the south side of the Mount Sumeru (Pāli Sineru). Haimavata division of India is indicated by Kālsi set of Rock edicts, the Asokan monoliths at Nigliva, Lumbini and those in the districts of campărana. The Himālayan region
1. TM. Vol. III p. 184. 2. Ibid. Vol. II p. 292. 3. Ibid. Vol. I p. 116. 4. Vanaparva Ch. 253. 5. HGAI p. 95. B. C. Law. 6. Ibid. p. 96. B. C. Law.
