Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1080

c19.1080

Kosambī lay on the bank of the river Jumna. Mahāvīra is said to have allowed his monks to move up to Kosambī to the south of Sāketa.⁴⁰⁷ It is said that Kosambī was the birthplace of the sixth Titthayara,⁴⁰⁸ and was visited by Pāsa,⁴⁰⁹ Ajja Suhatthi and Ajja Mahāgiri⁴¹⁰ Kosambī was visited by Mahāvīra frequently.⁴¹¹ Kosambī is identical with modern Kosam, an old village on the Jumna, thirty miles south-west of Allahabad.⁴¹²