Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.281

c10.281

*Pārā.*—The *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa* (Canto LVII, 20) refers to this river in Madhya-Bhārata (C.I.). It is called Pārā according to the *Vāyu Purāṇa* (XLV, 98). It is the modern river Pārvatī which rises in Bhupal and falls into the Chambal which is the largest tributary of the Jumna (Pargiter, *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa*, p. 295; Cunningham, *A.S.R.*, II, 308).