Places & Regions
Regions, cities and the geography of the subcontinent.
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- AlakāAlakā is the city of Kubera, lord of wealth, in the Rāmāyaṇa — the seat he withdrew to on Mou…
- The aśoka groveThe aśoka grove is the garden in Laṅkā where Sītā was held for a year in the Rāmāyaṇa, guarde…
- AyodhyāAyodhyā is the capital of Kosala and the city of Rāma in the Rāmāyaṇa, on the river Sarayū, d…
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- KannaujKannauj, ancient Kanyakubja, is a city on the Ganga in present-day Uttar Pradesh that served…
- KashmirKashmir is a Himalayan valley in the northwestern subcontinent whose early history encompasse…
- KekayaKekaya is the north-western kingdom of the Rāmāyaṇa from which Kaikeyī came, and where Bharat…
- KiṣkindhāKiṣkindhā is the vānara kingdom of the Rāmāyaṇa, ruled by Vālī and then by Sugrīva, where Rām…
- KosalaKosala is the kingdom of the Ikṣvāku line in the Rāmāyaṇa, ruled from Ayodhyā on the Sarayū,…
- Kuśāvatī and ŚrāvastīKuśāvatī and Śrāvastī are the cities in the Rāmāyaṇa's last book where Rāma installed his son…
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- MathuraMathura is an ancient city on the Yamuna River in western Uttar Pradesh, revered in Hindu tra…
- MotihariMotihari is the headquarters town of East Champaran district in Bihar, best known as the site…
- Mount MahendraMount Mahendra is the peak in the Rāmāyaṇa from which Hanumān launched himself across the oce…
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- PañcavaṭīPañcavaṭī is the place on the Godāvarī in the Rāmāyaṇa where the exiles built their hut on Ag…
- PataliputraPataliputra was the capital of the Magadha kingdom and later of the Mauryan and, intermittent…
- PrayāgaPrayāga is the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā in the Rāmāyaṇa, where the sage Bharadv…
- PunjabPunjab, the "Land of Five Rivers" straddling the India-Pakistan border in the northwestern su…
- PurushapuraPurushapura, present-day Peshawar, was the imperial capital of the Kushan Empire under Kanish…
- PushkalavatiPushkalavati, at modern Charsadda in Pakistan, was the earliest capital of the Gandhara regio…
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- SāṅkāśyāSāṅkāśyā is the city of Kuśadhvaja in the Rāmāyaṇa, a satellite kingdom of Videha, whose two…
- The SarayūThe Sarayū is the river of Ayodhyā in the Rāmāyaṇa, on which the city stands, where Daśaratha…
- Shimla under the BritishShimla was the summer capital of British India from 1864 to 1947, a hill station in the Himal…
- ŚṛṅgaverapuraŚṛṅgaverapura is the town of the Niṣāda chief Guha on the Gaṅgā in the Rāmāyaṇa, where the ex…