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ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY OF KAS'MTR. [Extra No. 2, 
To the west of Juskapura and on the shore of the Anchor lies the 
large village of Amburher. It is the ancient Amare6vara often men¬ 
tioned in the Rajatarahgini in connection with military operations to 
the north of SVinagar. 1 This is easily accounted for by the fact that 
the place lay then as now on the high road connecting the Sind Valley 
with the capital. It took its name from a temple of S / iva Amaresvara 
which Suryamati, Ananta’s queen, endowed with Agraharas and a Matha. 
The ancient slabs and sculptured fragments which I found in 1895 in 
and around the Ziaiat of Farrukhzad Sahib, may possibly have belonged 
to this temple. 
Continuing on the road towards SMnagar for about two miles 
further we come to the large village of Vicar Nag prettily situated in 
extensive wallnut groves. A fine Naga near the village forms the 
object of a popular Yatra in the month of Caitra. It is supposed to be an 
epiphany of the Ailapattra Naga who is mentioned also in theNilamata. 
An earlier designation seems to be Muktamulakanaga which is given to 
the locality by S'rlvara and in the Tirthasamgralia. 2 * To the west of 
the village and near an inlet of the Anctdar are the ruins of three 
ancient temples now converted into Ziarats and tombs. 8 
Only a quarter of a mile to the east of Vicar Nag and on the other 
side of the old canal called Lach a m Kul 
(*Laksmikulya) stands the hamlet of Ant a - 
bavan. In my “Notes on Ou-k'ong’s*account of Kasmir” I have proved that 
Ant a bavan derives its name from the ancient Vihara of Amrtabhavana 
which Amrtaprabha, a queen of Meghavahana, is said to have erected. 4 * 
Ou-k'ong mentions the Vihara by the name of Ngo-mi-t' o-po-wan which 
represents a transcribed Prakrit form *Amitabhavana or Araitabhavana. 
An ancient mound with traces of a square enclosure around it, which is 
found between the canal and the hamlet, may possibly belong to the 
remains of this Vihara. 
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Proceeding to the east of Ant a bavan for about a mile we come to 
the large village of Sudar a bal situated on a 
deep inlet of the Dal, known as SudarVkhun. 
The name of the village and the neighbouring portion of the lake make 
it very probable that we have to place here the sacred spring of 
Sodara. 6 It formed the subject of an ancient legend related by 
Amrtabhavana. 
TIrtha of Sodara. 
1 See Rdjat. vii. 183 note. 
2 See S'riv. iv. 65. On his authority the name Muktamulakanaga ought to have 
been shown on the map. 
s Compare for a view of these remains, Cole, Ancient Buildings , p. 31. 
4 See Rdjat. iii. 9 note, and Notes on Ou-k'ong , pp. 9 sqq. 
* See Rdjat. i. 125-126 note. Ks. -ba? in Sudar a bal means merely ‘ place.’ 
