Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.211

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RAMAṆA (M). (RAMAṆAKAM). An island near Dvārakā where, according to Chapter 38 of the Southern Text of Bhārata, there was a forest. It was in this island that Vinatā, mother of Garuḍa and Kadrū, mother of the nāgas lived. Garuḍa, after freeing his mother from her slavery evicted the nāgas from this island. (Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Chapter 17). Following the eviction, many of the prominent nāgas lived in Pātāla. But, Kālīya, in fear of Garuḍa, lived in Kālindī. After his suppression by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Kālīya, with his family, as advised by Kṛṣṇa returned to Ramaṇakam. (Bhāgavata, 10 th Skandha).