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Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.228

Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.228

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c10.228

*Makkarakaṭa*.—It was a forest in Avantī, where Mahākaccāyana lived in a leaf-hut and where the disciples of Lohicca approached him. He gave them a discourse on *dhamma* (*Saṃyutta*, IV. 116-117). According to the commentator it was a town (*nagara*) (*Sāratthappakāsinī*, P.T.S. II. 397).

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