Geography of Early Buddhism c8.21

c8.21

¹ The Mahābhārata (III, 130-131) refers to a rāṣṭra of the Śivis ruled by King Usīnara, which lay not far from the Yamunā. It is not altogether improbable that the Usīnara country was at one time the home of the Śivis. We find them also in Sind, in Madhyamikā in Rājputānā (Vaidya—Med. Hindu India, I, p. 162; Carmichael Lectures, 1918, p. 173) and in the Dasakumāra-Carita, on the banks of the Kāverī. (PHAI., pp. 155-56, also f.n., No. 2.)