Geography of Early Buddhism c7.s1.79

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Thūna. Thūna probably represents Sthūna of the Divyāvadāna and was a brāhmanagāma (Jāt., VI, p. 62) that formed the western boundary of the Buddhist Majjhimadesa. Thūna has not been identified by any scholar. As Yuan Chwang's account makes Thaneswar the westernmost country of the Buddhist Majjhimadesa, Prof. Mazumdar proposes to identify Thūna with Sthāniswara or Thaneswar (Cunningham's Geography of Ancient India by S. N. Mazumdar, Introduction, p. xliii).