Geography of Early Buddhism c10.4

c10.4

The region lying south of the river Godāvarī seems to have been little known to the early Buddhists; and it seems that the earliest intimate knowledge of the geography of the country, now known as the Far South, was acquired not earlier than the suzerainty of Asoka. Ceylon, to the early Buddhists, was undoubtedly known, but the island was reached more often by sea than by land.