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capital—Ahicchatra, modern Ramnagar in the Bareilly District, in the north, and Kāmpilya, modern Kampil in the Farrukhabad District, in the south); (11) Matsya (capital—Virāṭanagara, modern Bairat in the Jaipur Division of Rajasthan); (12) Sūrasena (capital—Mathurā, U.P.); (13) Aśmaka (capital—Paudanya, modern Bodhan on the Godāvarī in the Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh); (14) Avanti (capital—Ujjayinī in the Gwalior tract of Madhya Pradesh); (15) Kamboja (probably in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan); and (16) Gandhāra (capitals—Takṣaśilā and Puṣkalāvatī, respectively near Rawalpindi and Peshawar in West Pakistan). Campā, Rājagṛha, Śrāvastī, Sāketa, Kauśāmbī and Vārāṇasī were great cities. The Jain *Bhagavatī-sūtra* mentions: (1) Aṅga, (2) Vaṅga, Magadha, (4) Malaya (Travancore hills); (5) Mālavaka (Malloi of the Greeks about the Montgomery District, West Pakistan); (6) Ṛkṣa (the Vindhyan region to the south of Malwa); (7) Vatsa; (8) Koccha (Kaccha ?); (9) Paḍha (Pāṇḍya ?); (10) Rāḍha (the Burdwan region of West Bengal); (11) Vṛji; (12) Moli (Malla ?); (13) Kāśi; (14) Kosala; (15) Avaha (?); and (6) Sambhuttara (Suhmottara or Brahmottara in West Bengal ?). See Raychaudhuri, *PHAI*, 1938, pp. 81ff. ; W. Kirfel, *Die Kosmographie der Inder*, p. 225 ; also *infra*.