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starts off with a mind to go to Vaitāḍhya (få etc.) and having reached the mountain Vijayārdha and started from here he moved on to the north and avoiding a following of his associates he moved on through a sylvan terrain2 (a) when the sun had just risen. Having stayed there for the day on the peak of a hill he slept in the hilly grotto for the night and at the end of the night getting up through the cries of the beasts he started moving through the sylvan terrain (da) wading through which he was seen by Mitradhara, the younger brother of the lord of Pragjyotisa moving on the way come out to have a stroll in the forest at noon tide." Moved on from there he reached Ekaśṛnga that was to the west of Aṣṭāpada (Kailasa) not far away from Vaitādhya from where he saw the lake Adṛṣṭ apăra and following the neighing sound of the horse cavalcade reached a shrine and ultimately seeing Gandharvaka met Harivahana who in company of Tilakamañjarī had been consecrated to the throne of the Vidyadharas as the paramount sovereign. Intending to go to Gaganavallabha, his capital, Harivahana accompanied by Samaraketu saw the 'atavi' or the forest that lay between the Ekaśṛnga and Vaitādhya mountains. Hence Vijayārdha fell within the territory of Kamarupa which had Ekaśmga not away from it and Aṣṭāpada or Kailasa having Ekaśṛnga to its west. The forest lying between Ekaśṛnga and Vaitadhya, therefore, lay in series not far away from the forest lying close to Kāmarupa. This forest has been described as the stream of water in the form of pride having its current thick rolling on the surface of the earth of the overlord of the entire mandala or circle of the northern land." It has also been described as the egress road of the northern ocean quiet at the end of the aeon, covered by many series of moss or Śaivala mountains (forming the southern boundary of Dandaka forest, being identified with the hills near Mahabaleshwara in Satără district). It has been described as glamorous with sylvan tracts deriding the peaks of the Nilagiri also known as dardura belonging to the Malaya range.
1. Cp. 210 above.
2. TM. Vol. III. P. 62.
3. विलंघितालघुपथच व्रजन्नपराह्नसमये वनविहारविनितेन मार्गवर्तिना प्राग्ज्योतिषेश्वरानुजेन मित्र धरनाम्ना समदृश्यत। TM. III. p. 66. LL. 1-2 also व्रजंश्च विजयार्धमूधराभिमुखमरण्यमध्यगतेन प्राग्ज्योतिषेश्वरा fi fr TM Sm ed. p. 388. KSN Dr. Gupta p. 112.
4. अवनिपीठपर्यस्तरीवरप्रवाहां मदवारिवाहिनीभिव सार्वभौमस्य (समस्तोत्तरमण्डलेश्वरस्य) TM Vol. III. p. 128. Commentary as well.
3. Ibid. p. 128. LL. 4-5
6. Ibid. III. 9.129. LL. 2-3
