Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c12.36

c12.36

'Kuntala and Karṇāṭa are used as synonymous in the *Vikramāṅkadevacarita* by Bilhaṇa.² Vikramāditya VI has been called both Kuntalendu (or, Kuntalendra) and Karṇāṭendu...... Vaijayantī, identified with Banavāsi, has been described as a *tilaka* (that is to say, the capital) of the Karṇāṭa country in the Birur grant of Viṣṇuvarman......Karṇāṭa therefore signified the same territory as Kuntala or the country of which Kuntala formed a part....... The separate mention of Kuntala, Karṇāṭa