The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.10

c5.s2.10

Bahudā—The river Dhabalā now called Dhumela or Burha-Rapti, a feeder of the Rapti in Oudh. The severed arm of Rishi Likhita was restored by bathing in this river; hence the river is called Bāhudā (Mahābhārata, Śānti, ch. 22; Harivaṃśa, ch. 12). But in the Śiva Purāṇa (Pt. VI., ch. 60), it is said that Gaurī, the grandmother of Māndhātā, was turned into the river Bāhudā by the curse of her husband Prasenajit. It has been identified by Mr. Pargiter with the Rāmgaṅgā which joins the Ganges near Kanauj (see his Mārkaṇḍeya P., ch. 57). See Ikṣumatī. But this identification does not appear to be correct, as it is a river of Eastern India (Mahābhārata, Vana, ch. 87).