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CULTURAL DATA IN TILAKAMANJARĪ
Viṣṇusmrti, Yoginītantra,2 Kālikāpurāṇa, Padmapurāņa Raghuvamsa of Kālidāsa, Rgveda."
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According to Rāmāyaṇa king Dasaratha performed the Aśvamedha Yajña on the bank of this river. Many foremost Brahmins took part in it headed by Rṣyaśṛnga Rama and Lakṣmaṇa visited the confluence of the Sarayu and the Ganges. According to Milindapañhas this river issued forth from the Himalaya. According to Rgveda Citraratha and Arņa are said to have been defeated by the Turvaṣas and Yadus who crossed this river. It was Ghagra or Gogra, a tributary of the Ganges, on which stood the city of Ayodhya. it is the Sarabos of Ptolemy and is one of the five great rivers mentioned in early Buddhist texts. This river joins the Ganges in the district of Chapra Bihar. At the north east corner of the district of Bahraich it receives a tributary from the north east which goes by the name of Sarayu. Rāmāyaṇa places this river at a distance of half a yojana from the city of Ayodhya."
Dhanapala mentions the town of appropriate appellation known as Ayodhya in the Uttarakośalas" which had association made on all sides by the river named Sarayu which had presented herself over to the Bhagirathi (Ganga) in order to inquire after the account of ascent to the heavens of the sons of sagara consumed by the fire of the ire of Kapila, which had her sides undeserted even for a moment by the royal swans as if they were the decrepit chamberlains bearing wands in the form of straight lotus stalks come down from the eastern ocean and had her surges over splashed owing to their contacts with the posteriors of the comely dames of Kosala performing ablution therein." He has also referred to Brāhmaṇas (Śrotriyas)
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2. 2/5.
3. Ch. 24. 139.
4. Uttarakhanda vs. 35-38.
5. VIII. 95; IX. 20.; XIII. 60. 63; XIX. 40.
6. IV. 30. 18; X. 64. 9; V. 53. 9.
7. Rām Ādikāṇḍa Sarga 23 verse 5.
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9. HGAI. B. C. Law pp. 142-43.
10. उत्तरकोशलेष्वयोध्यति यथार्थाभिधाना नगरी TM Vol. I. p. 55.
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वृद्धकंचुकिभिरिव राजहंसैः क्षणमप्यमुक्तपार्श्वया कपिलकोपानलेन्धनीकृतसगरतनयस्वर्गवार्तामिव प्रष्टुं भागीरथीमुपस्थितया सरिता सरय्वाख्यया कृतपर्यन्तसख्या' TM Vol. I. p. 47. LL. 1-3
