Tribes in Ancient India c57.21

c57.21

The capital city of the Puṇḍravardhanabhukti is referred to in the *Rāmacaritam* of Sandhyākara Nandi (eleventh century A.D.), as well as in the *Karatoyā Māhātmyam* (sixteenth century A.D.) as Śrī Puṇḍravardhanapura, and also as Puṇḍranagara. According to the *Rāmacaritam* (Kavipraśasti, v. 1), Śrī Puṇḍravardhanapura seems to have been situated in Varendri, for it is there stated that Varendri was the foremost place of the east, and Puṇḍravardhanapura was its ‘crest jewel’, or the most beautiful ornament.