Kamyakasara
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Kamyakasara (काम्यकसर) is a lake mentioned in Mahabharata. It is probably the Chilika Lake of Orissa.
Origin
Variants
- Chilaka चिलका (उड़ीसा) दे. Kamyakasara काम्यकसर (AS, p.338)
- Kamyakasara (काम्यकसर) (AS, p.171)
History
काम्यकसर
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[1] ने लेख किया है ..काम्यकसर (AS, p.171) महाभारत, सभा, 52,20 में उल्लिखित सरोवर जो शायद उड़ीसा की चिलका झील है-'शैलभान् नित्य भत्तान्श्चाप्याभित: काम्यकं सर:'. इसमें इस प्रदेश के हाथियों का वर्णन है.
In Mahabharata
Kamyaka (काम्यक) Mahabharata (II.48.19), (III.11.11),(III.48.12),
Sabha Parva, Mahabharata/Book II Chapter 48 describes Kings who presented tributes to Yudhishthira. Kamyakasara (काम्यकसर) is mentioned in Mahabharata (II.48.19). [2]....Then the kings of those nations each gave a thousand elephants furnished with tusks like unto the shafts of ploughs and decked with girdles made of gold, and covered with fine blankets and therefore, resembling the lotus in hue. And they were all darkish as rocks and always musty, and procured from the sides of the Kamyaka lake, and covered with defensive armour.
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References
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.171
- ↑ ईषा दन्तान हेमकक्षान पथ्मवर्णान कुदावृतान, शैलाभान नित्यमत्तांश च अभितः काम्यकं सरः (II.48.19)