Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.161
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.161
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c9.s4.161
The *Mahābhārata* speaks of ‘Uśīnara’ as sacrificing on two small streams near the Jumna.² In the *Kathā-sarit-sāgara* Uśīnara giri is placed near Kanakhala, the “sanctifying place of pilgrimage at the point where the Ganges issues from the hills.”³ It is, doubtless, identical with Usira-giri of the *Divyāvadāna*⁴ and Usira-dhvaja of the *Vinaya Texts*.⁵ Pāṇini refers to the Uśīnara country in several *sūtras*.⁶ Its capital was Bhoja-nagara.⁷