ng to the Paranas live in the Vindhya
hills, but here they appear among the peoples of the south.

694 Utkal is still the native name of Orissa.

695 The land of the people of the "ten forts." Professor Hall in a note
on WILSON'S _Vishnu Purana_, Vol. II. p. 160 says: "The oral
traditions of the vicinity to this day assign the name of Dasarna to
a region lying to the east of the District of Chundeyree."

696 Avanti is one of the ancient names of the celebrated Ujjayin or
Oujein in Central India.

697 Not identified.

698 Ayomukh means iron faced. The mountain is not identified.

699 The Kaveri or modern Cauvery is well known and has always borne the
same appellation, being the Chaberis of Ptolemy.

700 One of the seven principal mountain chains: the southern portion of
the Western Ghats.

701 Agastya is the great sage who has already frequently appeared as
Rama's friend and benefactor.

702 Tamraparni is a river rising in Malaya.

703 The Pandyas are a people of the Deccan.

704 Mahendra is the chain of hills that extends from Orissa and the
northern Sircars to Gondwana, part of which near Ganjam is still
called Mahendra Malay or hills of Mahendra.

705 Lanka, Sinhaladvipa, Sarandib, or Ceylon.

706 The Flowery Hill of course is mythical.

707 The whole of the geography south of Lanka is of course mythical.
Suryavan means Sunny.

708 Vaidyut means connected with lightning.

709 Agastya is here placed far to the south of Lanka. Earlier in this
Canto he was said to dwell on Malaya.

710 Bhogavati has been frequently mentioned: it is the capital of the
serpent Gods or demons, and usually represented as being in the
regions under the earth.

711 Vasuki is according to some accounts the king of the Nagas or
serpent Gods.

712 Sailusha, Gramini, Siksha, Suka, Babhru.

713 The distant south beyond the confines of the earth is the home of
departed spirits and the city of Yama the God of Death.

714 Surashtra, the "good country," is the modern Sura

715 A country north-west of Afghanistan, Baikh.

716 The Moon-mountain here is mythical.

717 Sindhu is the Indus.

718 Pariyatra, or as more usually written Paripatra, is the central or
western portion of the Vindhya chain which skirts the province of
Malwa.

719 Vajra means both diamond and t