Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.10

c9.10

Avaha, people 36n ; cf. Avāha 98 Avāha, people 98 ; cf. Avaha 36n Avaṇḍa, territory 153 Āvantaka, people of Avanti 94n Āvartaka, v. l. Āvantaka 94n Avanti, people and country 36n, 72, 81, 93, 94n, 108 ; located in the southern region 62 ; near the Narmadā in the South 64 ; in the western region 63 ; same as the Āvanta people 82 ; same as Apara-Mālava or Ujjayinī-deśa 107 ; same as Mālava 104 ; see Ujjayinī 104 Avanti, name of Takṣaśilā according to some, probably Ujjayinī, city 106 Avanti, same as Avanti, country 108 Avantī, river 85 Avanti-Dakṣiṇāpatha, territory 72 Avantikā, same as Ujjayinī, city 107 Avara, people 95 Avataṃsa, v. l. Viḍiṃsa, name of the Mandara or Meru mountain 57 Avimuktaka, same as Vārāṇasī, city 107 Āvravantī, land in the southern region 62 A-ye-mu-k’a, country 152 Ayodhyā, city 72, 152 ; see Ajodaha 155 ; see Sāketa 104-07 ; located in the eastern region 64 ; wrongly spelt Ayogyā 91n ; see A-yu-t’e 152 Ayomukha, territory 152, 155n ; people or land in the south 62 A-yu-t’e (Ayodhyā), territory 152 Azania, Zanzibar coast 118 Azika, town 130 Bāblā, river 88 Baborana, city 128 Babrahan, town 158 Babylon, city 59 ; Babylonian deity 61 ; empire 59 ; legend 61 Bacare (Bakare) village, probably modern Porakad 117-18 Bactria (Baktria, Bāhlīka), country 73, 119