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In legendary form the story is told how King Madhava followed the course of the sacred fire from the

A PLACE HALLOWED BY RAMA.

banks of the Sarasvati eastward to the river which flows from the northern mountains, or the Himalayas, and is called Sadanira, the modern Gandak. That river formed the boundary between the two kingdoms; the