Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c5.s1.43

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Bāṇa’s *Kādambarī*² gives the following boundaries of the kingdom of an imaginary emperor named Candrāpīḍa: Gandhamādana (on which Badarikāśrama in the Himālayas is situated) in the north, Setubandha in the south, the mythical Udaya or Sun-rise mountain in the east and the mythical Mandara (apparently located here in the western or Arabian sea just as the mythical Sun-set mountain in a similar context in the *Harṣacarita*) in the west. In the *Harṣacarita*³ of the same author, the boundaries given in connection with king Harṣavardhana’s attempt to conquer the quarters are: Gandhamādana in the north, Suvela (the hill on which the city of Laṅkā was believed to have been situated) in the south, the mythical Sun-rise mountain in the east and the mythical Sun-set mountain in the west.