Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s4.13
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c8.s4.13
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c8.s4.13
Marching from Bārī along the Ganges on its eastern side, you pass the following stations :—Ajodaha (Ayodhyā, Fyzabad District), 25 farsakh from Bārī ; the famous Banārasī (Vārāṇasī), 20 farsakh. Thence changing the direction and marching eastward instead of southward, you come to Sharwār, 35 farsakh from Banārasī ; Pāṭaliputra (near Patna), 20 farsakh ; Janpa (Campā), 30 farsakh ; Dūgumpūr, 50 farsakh ; Gangāsāyara (Gangāsāgara), 30 farsakh, where the Ganges flows into the sea.