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The expression Nāgara is certainly not coined in the *Mānasāra*. Nagara is a common name for the town, and Nāgara is an adjective therefrom and implies something connected with a city. Madurā of Southern India is apparently an identical name to Mathurā of Northern India. In the same way, the Nāgara-khaṇḍa of Mysore, the port Nāgore of Tanjore, and the village Nāgara of the Deccan can be accounted for. There are several things to prove conclusively that the Aryan influence and civilization were spread, from Āryāvarta or Northern India, all over the Dākshiṇātya or Southern India. It is true that the borrowed names sometimes become more prominent than those of which they are but imitations. New York of America, for instance, is much more prominent than old York of old England. Similarly the name Nāgara, though originated in and indicating Northern India, might have become more prominent in Southern India.