_Paksha-tirtha.--Pakshi-tirtham_ or _Tiru-kadi-kundram_, 9 miles south east of Chingleput. [R. M. G.] "The hill of the sacred kites." It is a ridge terminating in a spiked hill, some 500 feet above sea-level, on which stands a Shiva temple. The name of the hill is Vedagiri or Vedachalam, and the idol is called Veda-girishwar. Every day two birds of the kite species come to the mountain and are fed by an attendant Brahman. The same two are believed to have come from Benares to receive this daily dole from time immemorial. (_Chingleput Man_. 106-107). _Pampá_.--The ancient and Puranic name of the Tungabhadra. The village of Hampi (the site of the famous capital Vijaynagar) was originally known as Pampa-tirtha. This name (also _Pampá-saras_) is now borne by a tank on the Haidarabad side of the Tungabhadra near Anegundi. (_Bellary Gazetteer_, 6, 261). _Pána_.--Panakal Narasimha at Mangal-giri, 7 m. south of Bezvada. But it is too far to the north. [R. M. G.] When visitors offer a draught to Narasimha-swami, the image in the temple refuses to drink more than half of it. (_Kistna Dist. Man._ 179). _Páná-garhi.--Panagodi_, 30 m. s. s. w. of Tinnevelly on the road to Trivandrum. [R. M. G.] But the temple there is to Ramlinga-swami Shiva and not to Ram. _Panchavati_.--Identified with Nasik in the Bombay presidency. Nasik and Trimbak (at the source of the Godavari) are described in _Bombay Gazetteer_, xvi. _Pandupur.--Pandharpur_, on the Bhima river, 38 miles due west of Sholapur; famous for its temple to Vithoba. (_Bombay Gaz_. xx. 415-481). _Papa-nashan_.--Eight miles s. w. of Kumbakonam (Tanjore Gaz. 221). There is another city of this name 29 miles west of Palamkota, (in the Tinnevelly district). Here near a pagoda the Tamraparni river takes its last fall from the hills to the level country. (_Tinn. Man._ 91). _Payaswini.--Tiru-vattar_ in the Travancore State. [R. M. G.] _Pitambar_.--Evidently Chidambaram, 26 miles south of Cuddalore. Famous for its great pagoda, covering 39 acres in the centre of the town, and sourrounded on all four sides by a street 60 feet wide. It contains the Akasa-linga. (_S. Arcot Manual_, 400-407). _Rishava peak--Anagarh-malai_, 12 miles north of Madura. [R. M. G.] _Rishyamukh_.--Identified with the hill on the Nizam's side of the narrowest of the gorges in the Tungabhadra near Hampi. (_Bellary Gaz._ 261). _Shiva image_.--Either Vedagiris at Pakshi-tirtham or the _lingam_ in the shore temple at Mahavalipuram (Seven Pagodas). _Shiva Kanchi_.--The modern _Conjeveram_, also called the Southern Benares, 56 miles south-west of Madras. The Shiva temple is dedicated to Ekambara-swami. South-east of it stands _Vishnu Kanchi_ or Little Conjeveram, with its temple to Vishnu under the name of Varada-ráj. _Shiva-kshetra_.--There is a Shiva-ganga tank at Tanjore. The great Brihatishwar temple of this town seems to be meant in our text. (_Tanjore Gaz._ 269-271).