Geography of Early Buddhism c10.27

c10.27

In the Mahāvaṃsa we read that Vijaya, King of Ceylon, married a daughter of the Pāṇḍu King whose capital was Madhurā or Mathurā in southern India. Madhurā (Dakṣiṇa Mathurā) is Madura in the south of the Madras Presidency. Another capital was probably at Kolkai. The rivers Tāmraparṇi and Kṛtamālā or Vaigai flowed through it.