Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c18.10

c18.10

To sum up, we have tried to collect together this motley information of the Jain scriptures at one place so that students of ancient Indian geography may not have to grope into the thick and often badly edited Jain texts. In collecting, however, this information the difficulties have been to identify most of the obscure place-names visited by Mahāvīra and his disciples and other Jain saints, kings, traders, etc as they have disappeared without leaving any trace. However, it is possible if a detailed tour of the area covered by Mahāvīra’s cārikā is made, that by the bits of information supplied by the Jain texts, one may be able to throw further light on their identifications For the present, however, whatever information was available about these place-names from the Jain canons, have been recorded.