Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s5.10

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23. There appear to have been more than one city called Mṛttikāvatī and one people called Mārttikāvata, the Sālvas having a city named Mṛttikāvatī according to one tradition. See Pargiter, *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa*, trans., pp. 342, 349, where one of the cities of that name has been located in the Gujarat region.