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Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s2.92

Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s2.92

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c7.s2.92

21. Gonarda—a locality lying between Ujjayinī (capital of West Malwa) and Vidiśā (capital of East Malwa) in Malwa; wrongly placed in Eastern India probably under the influence of a convention of the grammarians who divided North India into North (really North-West) and East (actually South-East) and placed Gonarda in the latter division.⁷