Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.633

c6.633

Saṃkāśya (Pali: Saṃkassa).—It has been identified with modern Sankisa, a village in the Farrukhabad district of the U.P., situated 36 miles north by west from Kudārkoṭ, 11 miles south-south-east from Aliganj in the Azamnagar Pargana of the Etawah district, and 40 miles north-north-east from Etawah. According to some Saṃkassa is Saṅkissa or Saṅkisa Basantapura situated on the north bank of the river Ikṣumatī, now called Kālinadī between Atranji and Kanoj and 23 miles west of Fatehgarh in the district of Etawah and 45 miles north-west of Kanoj. According to Patañjali’s *Mahābhāṣya* (Vol. I, p. 455), it is four yojanas distant from Gavidhumat (2. 3. 21; vide *A Stone Inscription from Kudārkoṭ*, E.I., I, 179-180). For Archaeologcal remains, see excavation at Saṅkisa by Hirānanda Śāstri (J.U.P.H.S., III, 1927, pp. 99-118).