The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.59

c5.s5.59

Godhana-giri—Same as Garatha Hill (Bâna Bhatta’s E North-Kanara, Karwar district, ṅokarṇa—1. Gendia, a town in the province of It is a celebrated place of pilgrimage thirty miles from Goa between Karwar and Kumta. ., Bk. III, ch. 15). It contains the (*Mbh.*, Âdi P., ch. 219; *Raghuvamśa*, VIII; *Śiva P* Râvana. It is thirty miles south of temple of Mahâdeva Mahâbâleśvara established by bold: *JASB.*, vol. XV (1846), p. 228]. Sadâsheogad which is three miles south of Goa [Nwiṇṭha, a Śaiva (*Śankaravijaya*, ch. 15). Here, Saṅkarâchâryya defeated in controversy Nilkarmed austerities at Gokarna to bring 2. Bhâgîratha, king of Ayodhyâ, is said to have perfais Gokarna is evidently the modern down the Ganges (*Râmâyana*, Bâla K., ch. 42). Thg to the *Varâha Purâna* (ch. 170), Gomukhî, two miles beyond Gaṅgotrî. 3. Accordinfluence of the river Sarasvatî.