Geography of Early Buddhism c6.4

c6.4

Other sources from which we can gather chips of information as to the geographical knowledge of the early Buddhists may be mentioned the inscriptions of Asoka and those at the Khaṇḍagiri and Udayagiri hills of Orissa. Coins too, sometimes, enable us to locate a particular nation or tribe, as for example, the location of the kingdom of King Sivi of the Sivi Jātaka has been determined by the discovery of some copper coins at Nāgri, a small town 11 miles north of Chitor.