[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s3.35 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.35 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.35 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.35) of the Godāvarī about two yojanas from the hermitage of Agastya.¹ That this Daṇḍakāraṇya was the modern Mahārāṣṭra is shown by the fact stated above, that it was watered by the river Godāvarī, and by several others. According to the Hindu ritual it is necessary when beginning any religious ceremony to pronounce the name of the country in which it is performed. The Brāhmans in Mahārāṣṭra do not utter the name Mahārāṣṭra but Daṇḍakāraṇya with the word deśa or "country", attached to it. In the introduction to Hemādri's Vratakhaṇḍa, a work written more than six hundred years ago, Devagiri, the modern Daulatābād, is spoken of as situated in a district on the confines of Daṇḍakāraṇya. Nāsik claims to be the Pañchavaṭī where Rāma lived. But the poet could hardly be expected to have brought his hero from the Vindhya to such a remote westerly place as Nāsik. The river Godāvarī must, from the description occurring in the Rāmāyaṇa as well as in Bhavabhūti's Uttara Rāmacarita, have been wide at Rāma's Pañchavaṭī. It could hardly have been so at Nāsik, which is very near its source. On the other hand, "the region about the northern part of the Sahyādri through which flowed the river Godāvarī and in which Govardhana was situated" is in the Purāṇas represented as "the most charming on earth; and there, to please Rāma, the sage Bhāradvāja caused heavenly trees and herbs to spring up for his wife's enjoyment, and thus a lovely garden came into existence."² In the Mārkaṇḍeya, Govardhana is spoken of as a town; but the Vāyu and the Matsya seem to mean it to be a mountain. This Govardhana must, from the given position, be the same as the village of that name near Nāsik; and thus the three Purāṇas must be understood as supporting the identification of Pañchavaṭī with Nāsik. - [Previous: c8.s3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.34) - [Next: c8.s3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.36) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) ## Linked texts (10) - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) — Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit - [Nāsik](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nasik) - [Devagiri (Daulatabad)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.devagiri) - [Godavari](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.godavari) - [Vratakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vrata.vratakhanda) — Hemādri, Sanskrit - [Uttararāmacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.rama.uttararamacarita) — Bhavabhūti, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.35) · Pramāṇa