The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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8. And anywhere on the bank of the Narmada
(Nerbudda) river;
9. And on the bank of the Yamuna (Jumna);
10. And, particularly, on the Gariga;
11. And at Ku^avarta ;
12. And at Binduka ; 13. And upon the Nilgiri
hills; 14. And at Kanakhala; 15. And at Kub-
.famra ; 16. And on the Bh;zzguturiga (mountain) ;
17. And at Kedara; 18. And on the Mahalaya
(mountain); 19. And on the Natfantika (river) ; 20.
And on the Sugandha (river); 21. And at Yakam-
bhari; 22. And at Phalgutirtha; 23. And on the

mula in Kasmir, is meant. See Buhler, Kasrmr Report, p. 12,
where a ‘ Varaha hill’ is mentioned as adjacent to that town.
11. This Tirtha ‘is situated upon the mountain called Tryam-
baka, where the Godavari river takes its rise.’ (Nand.) Tryambaka
is the modern Trimbak (the name of a place of pilgrimage situated
near Nasik).
12. ‘Binduka is the name of a Tirtha in the Dekhan. Bilvaka,
as other texts read (the MS. on which the two Calcutta editions
are based among the number), is the name of another Tirtha in
the Dekhan.’ (Nand.)
14. There is one Kanakhala in the Himalayas, and another
near Trimbak. (Nand.)
15. There is one plain of that name in Orissa, and another in
Haridvar. (Nand.)
16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amara-
ka/z/aka range, according to Nand.; in the Himalayas, according to
others. See the Petersburg Dictionary.
17. Kedara (the Kedar mountains ?) is in the Himalayas. (Nand.)
18. 19. These two names are not defined by Nand.
20. This is a river in the vicinity of the Saugandhika mountain.
(Nand.)
21. Nakambhari is the modern Shambar, which lies ‘in the
desert of Marudesfi, on the salt lake.’ (Nand.)
22. ‘Phalgutirtha is a Tirtha in Gaya.’ (Nand.)
23. Mahagafiga, ‘the great Ganga,’ is the Alakananda river
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