The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.15

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Baidyanātha—1. See Chiṭabhūmi. It is a place of pilgrimage (Padma P., Uttara Kh. ch. 59). 2. In the district of Kangra in the Panjab. Same as Kira-grāma (Matsya P. ch. 122). [Temples of Baidyanātha are:—In Deogaḍh in the Sonthal Perganas in Bengal (Brihad-Dharma P., pt. I., ch. 14). See Chiṭabhūmi. For the establishment of the god and the name of Baijnāth (Baidyanātha), see Mr. Bradley-Birt’s Story of an Indian Upland, ch. xi. 2. In Dabhoi, Gujarat (Ep. Ind., vol. 1, p. 21). 3. In Kiragrāma on the east of the Kangra district, 30 miles east of Koṭ Kangra on the Binuan river (ancient Kandukā-binduka) in the Panjab (Ep. Ind., vol. 1, p. 97) ].