NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF MADAVARAJYA. 
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and Amaranatha is much frequented even at the present day. The 
Mahatmyas of Vijayesvara do not fail to name a considerable number 
of minor Tirthas to be visited along with the main site now marked 
by the new temple above referred to. But apart from Gakradhara and 
Gambhirasamgcima I am unable to trace any of these in the older texts. 
Turning to that portion of the Dachunpor district which lies in the 
Lid a r Valley we have but few old localities to notice. The village "of 
Liv a r , some ten miles to the north-west of Vijayesvara, is the Levara 
of the RajataraiiginI, mentioned as an Agrahara established by King 
Lava . 1 Kular , about four miles higher up the Valley, is identified by 
an old gloss with Kuruhara, said to have been an Agrahara of Lava’s 
son Kusa . 2 
Close to Pah a lgam where the Lid a r Valley divides into two 
branches, lies the hamlet of Mamal. A small temple of the usual 
Kasmir style built by the side of a fine spring is visited by the pilgrims 
to Amaranatha. It is designated in the Mahatmya called Amaresvara- 
kalpa as Mammesvara. It is in all probability identical with the shrine 
of this name mentioned in the Rajatarangini . 3 
110 . As we have already before noticed the several sacred sites 
of the Amaranatha pilgrimage, we may now 
turn back and descend to the left or eastern 
portion of the Lid a r Valley. It forms the 
modern Pargana of Khovurpor. The latter name meaning ‘ left side ’ 
reproduces the earlier designation Vamaparsva, of the same significance, 
found in Jonaraja’s Chronicle, the Lokaprakasa and elsewhere. 1 ' In the 
upper portion of the Pargana I am not able to identify any particular 
old locality, though ancient remains in the form of sculptures of some 
interest are found near several Nagas of this tract, e.g., at Lokutipur 
and Sali (Papaharananaga ). 
The large village of Hut a mar is undoubtedly an old site. Its 
modern name seems to identify it with the S'aktamatha which Ksemen- 
dra names as one of the stations in the peregrinations of his heroine 
Kankali. The chief mosque of the place is built with the remains 
of a Hindu temple and preserves in its walls some sculptured fragments 
of remarkable beauty . 6 
District of 
Vamaparsva. 
I See Raj at. i. 87. 
8 Rdjat. i. 88. 
* See viii. 3360. 
* Jonar. (Bo. ed.) 79,1232. 
& See Samay. ii. 43. The change of S'dkta > Hut * is in accordance with the 
phonetic laws of Kasmiri; mar is the regular derivative of matha, see above, § 56. 
[When preparing my map, I had not noticed th« local name of Ksewendra’s text ; 
it is hence not shown on the map]. 
