Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.71

c7.71

*Bhīmarathī* (or Bhīmaratha).—The river Bhīmarathī, mentioned in the Daulatabad plates of the Western Cālukya king Jayasimha II, may be identified with the modern Bhīmā, the main tributary of the Kṛṣṇā (*I.C.*, VIII, p. 113). On the north bank of this river a battle was fought between Pulakeśin and Appāyika and Govinda (*E.I.*, VI, 9). The *Vāyu* (XLV, 104) and *Varāha Purāṇas* mention this river. It figures prominently as a Sahya river in the Purāṇas, which appears to flow in the north-western portion of the district of Poona, from which place it takes a south-easterly course and flows into the Kṛṣṇā north of the district of Raichur, Hyderabad. It is fed by many streams (vide B. C. Law, *Rivers of India*, p. 49).