Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c18.11

c18.11

At several places in common with the Purāṇas there are lists of the Non-Aryan countries; Non-Aryan in this sense must be understood by those who had not come under the sphere of Jain influence. These lists are very important, though unfortunately the text is become so corrupt that nothing can be made out of majority of the geographical place-names in the names of the tribes which they hide under their corrupt texts. It would be really a great boon to indologists if some Jain scholar were to take up the scientific edition of these lists. For the present, however, one has to be content with whatever is at our disposal.