Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c21.9

c21.9

The Jain canons, besides giving information about the Āryan countries, give a list of many non-Āryan countries probably thereby meaning that Jainism had not penetrated into those countries. In these lists some of the countries, peoples and the Janapadas are recognisable, but unfortunately the traditional lists have become very corrupt through the centuries of their transmission. The author has, however, made an attempt to collate the lists occurring in various texts in order to find out the correct names.