The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c6.s7.159

c6.s7.159

Śoron—1. Śûkara-kshetra. 2. Ukalâkshetra. 3. Ukhala-kshetra, twenty-seven miles north-east of Itah, in the United Provinces, where Hiraṇyâksha was slain by Viṣhṇu in his incarnation of Varâha (boar). It contains a temple of Varâha-Lakshmî. It was at this place that Tulsî Dâs, the celebrated Hindi poet, was reared up during his childhood by the Sanyâsî Nṛisiṃha Dâs, when deserted by his parents at Râjapurî in the district of Banda, where he was born in Saṃvat 1589.