Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them v2.c19.s2.5

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The PuraNas regard sristhala as the most sacred spot in the Sarasvata-maNDala of Gujarat. The *Bhagvata PuraNa* associates it with Kardama *rishi*, who had his hermitage here, and also with Kapila *muni*, who was born in this place on the bank of the sacred Sarasvati river. It was also known as Vindusara.³ It is said that ANahillapaTaka or ANahillapaTTaNa, the capital of medieval Gujarat before Ahmadabad came up in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, was founded where it was because of its nearness to sristhala.