Geography of Early Buddhism c10.8

c10.8

References to the Bhoja country in Pali Buddhist literature are not uncommon. In the Saṃyutta Nikāya (Vol. I, pp. 61-62) we find mention of a Ṛṣi named Rohitassa Bhojaputta, as also of sixteen Bhojaputtas in a Jātaka story (Jāt., I, p. 45). Bhoja coincides with Berar or ancient Vidarbha, and Chammaka, four miles south-east of Elichpur in the Amaraoti District.