[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947) › c19.1080 # Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1080 Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1080 - **Language:** English ### [c19.1080](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.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 - [Previous: c19.1079](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1079) - [Next: c19.1081](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1081) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1080](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c19.1080) · Pramāṇa