The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.39

c5.s5.39

Gautama-āśrama—1. Ahalyāsthāna in the village of Ahiari, pargana Jarail, twenty-four miles to the south-west of Janakpur in Tirhut. 2 Godnā (Godāna) near Revelganj, six miles west of Chhapra on the Saraju; the Ganges once flowed by the side of this village. The Gautama-āśrama at Godnā, which is said to have been the hermitage of Ṛishi Gautama, the author of the Nyāya-darśana, derived its name, however, according to Dr. Hoey from the fact that at this place Gautama (Buddha) crossed over the Ganges after leaving Pāṭaliputra by the gate which was afterwards called the Gautama gate [*JASB.*, vol. LXIX (1900), pp. 77, 78—Dr. Hoey's *Identification of Kuśināra Vaiśālī &c.*]. But Patna is four miles to the south-east of Godnā; hence it is not probable that Buddha crossed over the river at this place. 3. Ahiroli near Buxar (*Bṛihat Nāradīya Purāṇa*, ch. IX). 4. Tryambaka near the source of the river Godāvarī (*Śiva P.*, Bk. I, ch. 54). The *Rāmāyaṇa*, however, places the hermitage of Ṛishi Gautama near Janakpur.