Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s2.93

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7. The Buddhist canonical literature gives the following interesting route from the Deccan to Eastern India—from the banks of the Godāvarī in the Aśmaka country near Mūlaka to Pratiṣṭhāna (Paithan in the Aurangabad District) in Mūlaka; thence to the city of Māhiṣmatī (in the Nimar region on the Narmadā); thence to Ujjayinī; thence to Gonarda ; thence to Vaidiśa (near Bhilsa); thence to Vanasāhvaya (probably Tumbavana, modern Tumain in the Guna District); thence to Kauśāmbī (near Allahabad); thence to Sāketa (Ayodhyā in the Fyzabad District); thence to Śrāvastī (modern Set-Mahet on the borders of the Goṇḍa and Bahraich Districts); thence to Śvetavyā; thence to Kapilavastu (in the Tarai); thence to Kuśinagara (Kasia in the Deoria District); thence to Pāvā; thence to Bhoganagara; thence to the Magadhan city of Vaiśālī. See Sircar, Stud. Geog. Anc. Med. Ind., p. 206. Among similar other routes known from Indian literature attention may be drawn to Kālidāsa's Meghadūta describing the cloud's aerial path from Rāmagiri (Ramtek in the Nagpur District) to Alakā in the Himalayas IV. Dākṣiṇātya or Dakṣiṇāpatha —