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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMANJARĪ
(Gangasrotasä gaganamaṇḍalā davatīrya),' the huge lake named Padma, the abode of Śrī, having been called the silvery mirror for the array of groves on the peaks of the mountain of snow (tuhinācala).2
It has also been called Śailaraja3 by Dhanapala )as already referred to in 100 above).
He calls its peaks (nīhāragiri sikhareṣu) having their cornices linked by the threads of the currents of the Ganges (Suranimnagā).* Himavat has been called as Varṣadharaparvata by him."
According to Dr. B. C. Law. The two loftiest mountains the Kailasa and the Himalaya (Himavan) stand to the south of the Meru mountain."
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In the Kuṇālajātaka Himālaya has been described as a vast region, 500 leagues in height and 3000 leagues in breadth."
The Himalayan mountain is the source from which the ten rivers, namely, Gangā, Yamuna, Acirāvatī, Sarabhu, Mahi, Sindhu, Sarasvati, Vetravati, Vitamsă and Candrabhāgā take their rise. But Purāņas mention more than ten rivers issuing from the Himavat viz. the Gangā, Sarasvati, Sindhu, Candrabhāgā, Yamunā, Śatadru, Vitastā, Irāvatī, Kuhu, Gomati, Dhutapāpā, Bāhudā, Dṛṣadvatī, Vipāśa, Devikā, Rankṣu, Niścīrā, Gaṇḍakī and Kausiki."
Himalaya mountain is the only Varṣaparvata which is placed within the geographical limits of Bharatavarṣa. The Mungera grant of Devapāla refers to Kedara which is situated in the Himalaya. According to the Kumārasambhava (I.1) the ancient Himalaya mountain stands on the north of Bharatavarṣa and it is engulfed by the sea on the east and west."
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According to Dr. B. C. Law Maināka mountain was a part of the great Himalayana range. It was near Kailasa." According to Dr. B. S. Upadhyaya
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1. TM Vol. I p. 91.
2. Ibid. Vol. I p. 154.
3. Ibid. Vol. II p. 179.
4. Ibid. Vol. III p. 12.
5. Ibid. Sm. ed. 412.
6. HGAI p. 95.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid. p. 96.
9. Ibid.
10. HGAI. p. 97.
11. BHA I p. 95.
