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Samhāra has been named a sloppy peak (Prapāta Sānuh) of the peak of the Vidyāsiddhi known as Candagahvara.'
The expression ‘like the Vijayārdha mountain that was gorgeous with a triple series of ranges, the sanctuary or matha was beautiful with three storeysimplies Vijayārdha being a range of triple series of hills. Of the two mountains Arbuda and Raivataka 'Arbuda' according to Dr. B. C. Law is a part of the Arāvalī range, but completely detached from it by a narrow valley in the south west, in the Sirohi State of Rajputana. It is known as Ābu' the rock island. The Arāvali range runs across Rajputana in the west easterly direction and cuts the country into two halves, being closely connected with the Vindhyan range by the rocky ridges of southern Rajputana and central India,' while Raivataka is the Mount Giranar near Jūnāgarh in Gujarāta situated beyond the Vindhyan ranges in the west in the centre of Kathīwār Peninsula. According to V. S. Apte Raivataka is a mountain near Dvārikā, Māgha in his siśupālavadha' has described Raivataka as a part of the Vindhya. Arbuda is actually a mountain of the Pāriyātra range of Kulaparvatas.
Dhanapāla has also referred to 'Nīlagiri hills, the range of the Malaya Kulaparvata which denotes the southern part of the western ghāts south of Kāverī comprising of the Dodabetta, Nilgiri, Palni and cardamom and Malabar hills.
darce YTTAT: 144fun faenert: may have a covert allusion to Girnar in Girinagara, but at the same time it may mean a town situated on the Vaitāt hya mount which has been described at length by Dhanapāla as being rich in lakes and steams connected with the trees of Adrstapāra lake or lakes and streams connected with the trees whose other side was not visible. Harivāhana accompanied by Samaraketu saw that mountain that was, as it were, the turban wrap of the Jambūdvīpa, the measuring tape of the Bhāratavarsa, the bridge construction of the ocean of the sky, the parting
1 TUS"klefaffaire..... HERT 7TH Hochfi: Ya 74: TM Sm. Ed. p. 398. 2. farafia H ERHETTI TM Vol. III. p. 107. 3. HIGAI. p. 22. 4. Ibid. p. 22. 5. Skt. Eng. Dict. under Raivataka. 6. IV.2. 7. R eglamuurarirard-icifcercceffift:- TM Vol. III. p. 129. 8. KSN p. 111. 9. TM Vol. III. p. 184.
