Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.1706

c19.1706

Sāgeya was the capital of Kosala,⁶⁹⁷ one of the twenty five and a half Āryan countries It was included among the ten capitals. It is stated that the fourth Titthayara received his first alms here.⁶⁹⁸ Sāgeya was visited by Pārsva⁶⁹⁹ as well as by Mahāvīra, the latter assigned a limit for the movements of the Jain monks here (see supra p 250).