Geography of Early Buddhism c3.1

c3.1

This treatise attempts for the first time at presenting a geographical picture of ancient India as can be drawn from the Pali Buddhist texts. I have embodied in it the researches of my predecessors in this line as far as they are necessary to construct the geography of the early Buddhists. History and Geography are so very allied that in many places I have found it necessary to put in important historical materials along with geographical information. I have derived much help from my previous publications, especially from my works on the Kṣatriya Tribes. I have added an appendix on the Cetiya in the Buddhist Literature (published in the Geiger Commemoration Volume) which, I hope, will be found useful. I have spared no pains to make this monograph as exhaustive as possible. I shall consider my labour amply rewarded if it is of some use to scholars interested in ancient Indian history and geography.