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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1019

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1019

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c19.1019

Koḍivarsa was the metropolis of Lāḍha, one of the twenty five and a half Āryan countries King Cilāya of this place is said to have joined the ascetic order under Mahāvīra in Sāketa.³⁷⁴ Koḍivarsiyā is mentioned as one of the *sākhās* of the Jain *sramanas* in the *Kalpasūtra*³⁷⁵ Kotivarsa is mentioned in the Gupta inscriptions It is identified with Bangarh, a village about eighteen miles in Dinajpur district.³⁷⁶