Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.550

c8.550

Veṭhadīpa.—Hiuen Tsang locates the site of Droṇastūpa, that is Veṭhadīpa, 100 li south-east of Mahāsāra identified with Masār a village six miles to the west of Arrah. Some have identified it with Kasia (*A.G.I.*, 1924, 714) and with Bettiah in the Champaran district of Behar (*J.R.A.S.*, 1906, 900). Veṭhadīpa which was the home of the Brahmin Droṇa, lay not far from Allakappa (B. C. Law, *Geography of Early Buddhism*, p. 25).