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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1496

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1496

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c19.1496

Paitthāna is identified with modern Paithan which lay on the southern bank of Goyāvarī in south of Aurangabad It was the birthplace and the capital of Rājā Sālivāhana who is said to have founded the Saka era in 78 A.D It is Potali of the Buddhists and was a great emporium of commerce ⁶⁰¹