Geography of Early Buddhism c10.33

c10.33

¹ ‘Tosali (variant Tosala) was the name of a country as well as a city. Lévi points out that the Gaṇḍavyūha refers to the country (Jana-pada) of “Amita Tosala” in the Dakshiṇāpatha, “where stands a city named Tosala.” In Brahmanical literature Tosala is constantly associated with (south) Kosala and is sometimes distinguished from Kaliṅga The form Tosalei occurs in the Geography of Ptolemy. Some mediæval inscriptions (EP. Ind. IX, 286; XV, 3) refer to Dakshiṇa Tosala and Uttara Tosala.’ (PHAI., p. 191.)