Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c12.39

c12.39

Only a few words are required now to be added to the above. As Vidarbha and Vatsagulma are separately mentioned in the *Kāmasūtra*, our critic thinks that the former included the latter and that they are separately mentioned according to the Māṭhara-Kauṇḍinya *nyāya*. It will be clear from the extracts quoted from our book that we would partially apply the same *nyāya* to explain the separate mention of Vanavāsī and Kuntala in the *Mahābhārata* and the *Vāyu Purāṇa* on which the critic takes his stand. The *Daśakumāracarita* and the *Kāvyamīmāṃsā* were composed in an age when the name Kuntala was often applied to the Kanarese empire of the Cālukyas and their successors,¹ which usually included the Kuntala country proper. The separate mention of Banavāsī indicating Kuntala proper and Kuntala signifying the Kanarese empire in these works has nothing to do with the critic’s location of the Kuntala country proper in the South Marāṭhā country.