The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s3.77

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Durvâsâ-âśrama—1. The hermitage of Ṛishi Durvâsâ is pointed out on the highest peak of a hill called the Khalli Pâhâḍ (Khaḍi Pâhâḍ : Martin's Eastern India, vol. II, p. 167), a limestone rock which is worked for chalk. It is two miles to the north of Colgong (Kahalgâon or Kalahagrâma from the pugnacious character of the Ṛishi) in the district of Bhagalpur and two miles to the south of Pâtharghâṭâ, the name of a spur of the Colgong range jutting into the Ganges, about twenty-five miles from Bhagalpur. The Pâtharghâṭâ hill (ancient Śilâ-saṅgama or properly speaking Bikramasilâ Saṅghârâma) contains seven rock-cut caves of a very ancient date with niches for the images of the deities, referred to by Hiuen Tsiang when he visited Champa in the seventh century. Figures of the Buddhist period are scattered in the court-yard of the temple of Bâtesvaranâtha Mahâdeva just by the side of one of the caves. A flight of stone steps leads from the Ganges to the temple on the hill (JASB., 1909, p. 10. See Colgong in pt. II. 2. Durvâsâ's hermitage was also at Dubâur, in the hills, seven miles north-east of Rajauli, in the sub-division of Nowadah in the district of Gayâ (Grierson's Notes on the District of Gaya).