Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c28.2

c28.2

A place called Kakaṇdī or Kākandīnagarī is famous in both the Jain and Buddhist traditions. The Jains regarded the locality as the birth place of the Tīrthaṅkara Suvidhinātha,¹ while the Buddhists regarded it as the home of an ancient sage named Kākanda.² But this place does not appear to have so far been satisfactorily identified.