Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c20.s3.29

c20.s3.29

Kosala in *Dakshiṇāpatha*, *i.e.*, South Kosala, comprised the modern Bilāspur, Raipur and Sambalpur districts, and occasionally possibly even a part of Gañjām.³ Its capital was Śrīpura, the modern Sirpur, about forty miles east by north from Raipur.¹ Mahākāntāra is apparently a wild tract of the Central Provinces (Madhya Pradeśa) which probably included Kāntāra which the *Mahābhārata* places between Veṇvātaṭa (the valley of the Waingaṅgā) and Prāk-Kosala, the eastern part of Kosala mentioned above.²