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² Pargiter in *Mark P.*; Fleet in JRAS, 1910, 444f. There is one difficulty in the way of accepting this identification. Māndhātā lay to the south of the Pāriyātra Mts. (W. Vindhyas), whereas Māhishmatī lay between the Vindhya and the Ṛiksha—to the north of the Vindhya and to the south of the Ṛiksha, according to the commentator Nīlakaṇṭha (*Harivaṁśa*, II. 38. 7-19). For identification with Maheśvara, once the residence of the Holkar family, see *Ind. Ant.*, 1875. 346ff. For Mandhātā, see *ibid*, 1876, 53.