abhisyandiramaṇa

appended to the royal capital; Jaṭādh.: tatrābhisyandiramaṇaṃ

śākhānagaramapyubhe; Śabdaratn.: tadabhisyandinagaraṃ śākhānaga-

rameva ca; similarly Trikāṇdaśeṣa. (The comm. of the Ama-

rak. on the synon. śākhānagara restrict the term to the

suburb of a royal capital; e. g. Mathureśa: mūlanagarāttu yada-

nyatpuraṃ tacchākhānagaram . ekaṃ rājadhānīsamīpe nagarāntarasya--

i. e. ‘one term for another town in the neighbourhood of a

royal capital’--. abhisyandiramaṇaśabdo'pyatra; or Rāmā-

śrama: mūlanagaraṃ rājadhānī tato'nyadyatpuraṃ tacchākheva nagaraṃ

śākhānagaram. The word implies literally ‘a pleasure ground

where people flock together’ and the writing abhiṣya° is

therefore incorrect, since syand, pref. abhi, applies in this

compound to living beings; comp. the preceding; Rāyam.

(on śākhānagara): mūlanagare'saṃmitajanaughasyāvasthānārthaṃ mūla-

nagarasya saṃnidhau yadanyatpuraṃ nagarāntaraṃ kriyate &c.; Bharatam.:

mūlanagare'saṃmitasya janaughasya sthānāya mūlanagarasya samīpe'ṅke

vā yadanyatpuraṃ nagarāntaraṃ tacchākhānagaram). A word abhi-

syandīvana in the same sense which occurs in a Ms. of the

Bhūriprayoga, belonging to the E. I. H., is probably a mis-

reading for the given word. E. abhisyandin and ramaṇa.