Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.85

c29.85

There is some suggestion that the southern part of the Rajputana desert was still a very shallow sea⁴ in those times, for in the story of the rishi Utaṅka Śrāvasta's second successor Kuvalāśva is said to have killed a Rākṣasa, Daitya or asura, Dhundhu (whence he got the name Dhundhumāra), near a sand-filled sea called Ujjālaka in the desert plains, which mean that desert.⁵ Again, Viśvāmitra performed austerities and attained brahmanhood at Ruṣaṅgu's tīrtha on the R. Sarasvatī, in low lands near the sea (p. 205, note ²). The Sarasvatī would have flowed into that sea. Further, there