Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c14.s3.28

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¹ Tosalī (variant Tosala) was the name of a country as well as a city. Lévi points out that the *Gaṇḍavyūha* refers to the country (*Janapada*) of Amita-Tosala” in the *Dakshiṇāpatha*, “where stands a city named Tosala.” In Brāhmaṇical literature Tosala is constantly associated with (South) Kosala and is sometimes distinguished from Kaliṅga. The form Tosalei occurs in the *Geography* of Ptolemy. Some mediaeval inscriptions (*Ep. Ind.*, IX. 286; XV 3) refer to Dakshiṇa (South) Tosala and Uttara (North) Tosala.