The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c6.s3.t45: 36. Anandapura.
The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c6.s3.t45
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36. Anandapura.
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Hwen Thsang places *O.nan.to.pu.lo*, or Anandapura, at 700 *li*, or 117 miles, to the north-west of Vallabhi.¹ This town has been identified by M. Viven de Saint-Martin with Barnagar, on the authority of the *Kalpa* Sutra of the Jains; but the bearing is to the east of north, and the distance is 150 miles, or 900 *li*. *Barnagar* has already been mentioned as the Sanskrit *Vaḍapura*, or *Barpur*. The district was 2000 *li*, or 333 miles, in extent, and was a dependency of Malwa. This estimate of its size will be fully met by limiting its territory to the triangular tract lying between the mouth of the Banâs river on the west, and the Sâbar-mati river on the east.
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¹ Julien’s ‘Hiouen Thsang,’ iii. 164.
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- Kalpasūtra — Bhadrabāhu, Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit