Geography of Early Buddhism c8.5

c8.5

Bānabhatta, the author of Harsha-Carita, however, uses the word Uttarāpatha in its narrower sense and seems to include within the region so named the western part of U.P., the Punjab and the North-Western Frontier Provinces. According to Chinese Buddhist writers, northern India ‘comprised the Punjab proper including Kashmir and the adjoining hill states with the whole of eastern Afganisthan beyond the Indus, and the present Cis-satlej States to the west of the Saraswatī river’ (CAGI., p. 13).