Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.300

c9.s7.300

We learn from the *Chetiya Jātaka*⁴ that the metropolis was Sotthivatī-nagara. The *Mahābhārata* gives its Sanskrit name Śuktimatī, or Śukti-sāhvaya.⁵ The Great Epic mentions also a river called Śuktimatī which flowed by the capital of *Rājā* Uparichara of the *Chedi-vishaya* (district).⁶ Pargiter identifies the stream with the Ken, and places the city of Śuktimatī in the neighbourhood of Banda.⁷ Other towns of note were Sahajāti,⁸ and Tripurī,⁹ the mediæval capital of the *Janapada*.