[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s3.1 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s3.1 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s3.1 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.1) Kosala was the most important of the kingdoms in North India during the lifetime of the Buddha. Its exact boundaries are not known. But it must have bordered on the Ganges in its sweep downwards in a south-easterly direction from the Himālayas to the plains at the modern Allahābād. Its northern frontier must have been in the hills, in what is now Nepāl; its southern boundary was the Ganges; and its eastern boundary was the eastern limit of the Sākiya territory. For the Sākiyas, as one of our oldest documents leads us to infer, claimed to be Kosalans¹⁰. The total extent of Kosala was therefore but little less than that of France to-day. At the same time it is not probable that the administration was very much centralised. The instance of the very thorough Home Rule enjoyed, as we have seen, by the Sākiyas should make us alive to the greater probability that autonomous local bodies, with larger power than the village communities, which were of course left undisturbed, were still in existence throughout this wide territory. - [Previous: v1.c19.s2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.31) - [Next: v1.c19.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.2) - [Up: v1.c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.1) · Pramāṇa