Tribes in Ancient India c33.89

c33.89

Vincent Smith considers that the site of Kauśāmbī is to be looked for near the Sutnā railway station in the valley of the Tons river.¹ As for earlier evidence, the Brāhmaṇas generally assert that Kauśāmbī stood either on the Ganges or close to it, and the discovery of the name ‘Kosambimaṇḍala’ in an inscription over the gateway of the fort of Khara seems to confirm this, although the south-west bearing from Prayāga or Allahabad as recorded by Hsüan Tsang points unmistakably to the line of the Jumna.²