The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.8

c5.s9.8

Kakauthâ—The small stream Barhî which falls into the Chhoṭa Gandak, eight miles below Kasia (Cunningham’s Anc Geo, p 435) Carlleyle has identified it with the river Ghâgî, one and half miles to the west of Chitiyaon in the Gorakhpur district See Kalushtâ (Mahâparinibbâna Sutta, ch IV and Arch S Rep, vol XXII) Lassen identifies Kakauthâ of Arrian with the Bâgmatî of Nepal (McCrindle’s Megasthenes and Arrian, p 189 n)