Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.226

c8.226

Hiraṇyaparvata (Golden Mountain).—According to Cunningham, this hill was situated on the bank of the Ganges (*A.S.R.*, XV, pp. 15-16). It was known to the ancients as Modāgiri as mentioned in the *Mahābhārata*. It was also called the Mudgalagiri, modern Monghyr in Bihar. In the 11th century, it was known as Mun-giri (Alberuni's *India*, I, 200). Its limits may be fixed as extending from Lakṣmīsarai to Sultanganj on the Ganges in the north and from the western end of the Pārśvanāth hill to the junction of the rivers Barakar and Dāmudā in the south (*C.A.G.I.*, pp. 545ff.).