The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.59

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Barddhamana—1 From the Kathâ sarit-sâgara (chs 24, 25), Barddhamâna appears to have been situated between Allahabad and Banaras, and north of the Vindhya hills It is mentioned in the Mârkaṇḍeya Purâṇa and Vetâla-panchaviṃśati. 2 Barddhamâna was called Asthikagrama because a Yaksha named Sâlapâṇi had collected there an enormous heap of bones of those killed by him. Mahâvîra, the last Jaina Tîrthankara, passed the first rainy season at Barddhamâna after attaining Kevalinship (Jacobi's Kalpasutra, SBE, vol XXII, p, 261). From a copper-plate inscription found at Banskbera, 25 miles from Shahjahanpur, it appears that Barddhamâna is referred to as Barddhamâna-koṭi (see also Markaṇḍeya I, ch 58), where Harshavardhana had his camp in A D 638 Barddhamana koṭi is the present Bardhankoṭi in Dinajpur Hence Barddhamâna is the same as Bardhankoṭi Barddhamana is mentioned as a separate country from Banga (Devi P, ch 46) 3 Barddhamana (Vadhamâna) is mentioned in Spence Hardy's Manual of Buddhism, p 430, as being situated near Danta. 4 The Lalitpur inscription in JASB. 1883, p 67, speaks of another town of Barddhamâna in Malwu 5 Another Bardhamâna or Barddhamânapur was situated in Kathiâwâd it is the present Vaḍvâna, where Merutunga, the celebrated Jaina scholar, composed his Prabandha-chintâmaṇi in A D, 1423 he was also the author of Mahâpurushacharita, Shaddarśanavichâra, &c. (Merutuṅga's Therāvalī by Dr. Bhau Daji; Prabandha-chintāmaṇi, Tawney's Trans., p. 134, and his Preface, p. vii.)