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चित्र—कूट m. m. ‘wonderful peak’,
N. of a hill and district (the modern Citrakote or Catarkot near Kāmtā, situated on the river Paisuni about 50 miles S.E. of the Bandah in Bundelkhund; first habitation of the exiled राम and लक्ष्मण, crowded with temples as the holiest spot of राम's worshippers), [MBh. iii, 8200] ; [R. i-iii] ; [Ragh. xii f.] ; [VarBṛS.] ; [BhP.]
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CITRAKŪṬA A mountain. Renowned in the purāṇas, this mountain is on the banks of the river, Mandākinī. [M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 85] . It was here, at Citrakūṭa that Śrī Rāma, Sītā and others lived for a period of time. It is said that Rājalakṣmī (royal wealth and welfare) will embrace those who fast on the Citrakūṭa after a bath in the Mandākinī. [M.B. Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 26, Verse 29] . This mountain is in Bāndā Zilla of the U.P. in modern India. Citrakūṭa is described in [Cantos 56 and 94 of Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa] .
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a pleasure-hill, [Daś. viii, 90]
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चित्रकूट m. (
-टः) The name of a mountain in Bundelkhand, the modern Compteh, and first habitation of RAMA in his excile.
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