The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.230

c5.s2.230

Chamatkārapura—Ānandapura or Baranagara in the district of Ahmadabad in the province of Gujarat, anciently called Ānartta-deśa, where Liṅga worship was first established and the first Liṅga or phallic image of Mahādeva was called Achaleśvara. But according to other Purāṇas, Liṅga worship was first established at Devadāru-vana or Dāru or Daruka-vana in Garwal (see Devadāruvana). Chamatkārapura was also called Nagara, the original abode of the Nāgara Brāhmins (Skanda P., Nagara kh., chs. 1—13, 114). See Hāṭaka-kshetra and Ānandapura The Nāgara Brāhmins are said to have invented the Nāgari alphabet [ see my paper on the "Origin of the Bengali Alphabet (Banga-lipir utpatti)" in the Suvarṇabaṇik-Samāchār, Vol. II.] See Dāruvana.