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Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c22.2

Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c22.2

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c22.2

The antiquity of the Gayā-tīrtha has been the subject of a controversy for a long time.¹ Recently a paper entitled ‘Bihar in the Agni-Purāṇa’ has been published in the *Journal of the Bihar Research Society*, Vol. XL, Part i, 1954, pp. 1-7, where the problem has been discussed without reference to the views of earlier writers. In the concluding part of the said paper, the author draws our attention to the well-known stanza: