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TILAKAMAÑARI OF DHANAPĀLA
अस्ति सुवर्णद्वीपे मणिपुराभिधाननगरनिवासी बहुमतो राज्ञः पौरवर्गस्य च प्रवीण: किमपि लोकयात्रायां सांयात्रिक वणिग् वैश्रवणो नाम,
Samkāsya
It has been identified with modern Sankiśā, a village in the Farrukabad district of U. P., situated 36 miles north by west from Kudarkot, 11 miles south west-east from Aliganj in the Azamgarh Pargana of the Etawah district and 40 miles north east from Etawah. According to some Samkassa is Sankişa or Sankisa Basantpura situated on the north bank of the river Ikşumtī, now called Kālindī between Atranji and Kannoj and 23 miles west of Fatehgarh in the district of Etawah and 45 miles north-west of Kanoj. According to Patañjalī's Mahābhāşya' it is four Yojanas distant from Gavīdhumat (2.3.28).
According to Dr. B. S. Upadhyaya, it is very difficult to define the location of Sakrāvatāra and Sacītīrtha which have been mentioned by Kālidāsa in the Introductory scene (Prelude) of the sixth act and the middle of the Fifth act of his Abhijñānaśākuntalam.
According to Dr. Upadhyaya Sākuntala's dhīvara (fisherman) was a resident of Sakrāvatāra which formed such a political unit that included Sacītīrtha with in its fold. As is apparent from the appellation sacītīratha was a place of pilgrimage situated on the Ganges near Hastinapura. Hence Sakrāvatāra mentioned by Kālidāsa and recurred by Dhanapāla was near Hastināpura where Meghavāhana came right from Ayodhyā to offer his homage to the shrine of the Siddhas having a fortification provided with arched gates and turrets rising high. It was well known on the earth on account of its being a primeval place of pilgrimage, an ornament of the garden on the outskirts of the capital. Meghavāhana had established the temple of Śrī situate to the pleasure mound and just in the centre of the Pleasure-grove.
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