History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.311.3

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The same country sometimes has two names ( e. g. Vidarbha and Krathakaiśika denote the same country in Raghuvaṁśa VII. 1 and 32 ). ‘Buddhist India’ (by Rhys Davids p. 23) mentions the sixteen peoples ( or countries ), lists of which occur in the Aṅguttaranikāya I. p. 213, IV. p. 252 and in the Dīghanikāya II. p. 200 viz. Angas, Magadhas, Kāsis, Kosalas, Vajjis, Mallas, Cetis (Cedis), Vamsas (Vatsa?), Kurus, Pāñcālas, Matsyas, Śūrasenas, Aśmakas, Avantis, Gandhāras, Kambojas. Varāhamihira's Bṛhatsaṁhitā, Baudhāyana-gṛhyaśeṣasūtra I. 17, Kāmasūtra V. 6. 33-41, Bārhaspatya Arthasāstra (III. 83-117), the Kāvyamīmāṁsā of Rājaśekhara (17th chapter) name numerous countries. This last divides India into five regions and gives the names of about 70 countries in the four directions but none from Central India. The Bhāvaprakāśana (pp. 309-310) gives a list of 64 countries and states that Dakṣiṇāpatha (Deccan) is a fourth of Bharatavarṣa and that in the Tretā and Dvāpara ages people afraid of being overwhelmed by ice came down to the south.179a 56 countries are named in some Tantra works (vide 'Indian Culture' vol. VIII. p. 33). In the lexicon called Vaijayantī of Yādavaprakāśa (11th century A.D.) edited by Dr. G. Oppert, over a hundred countries and capitals of some of the countries are named (in the Bhūmikāṇḍa and chapter on deśa thereof).