Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.340

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c8.340

Mithilā was one of the five Indies. The civilization of Bengal—the new learning, especially that of logic which made the schools of Nadia famous throughout India, came from Mithilā, when Magadha had ceased to give light to eastern India (V. A. Smith, Early History of India, 4th ed., p. 353, f.n. 2).

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