History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.138

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²⁴⁸⁶ For the Janapadas and other geographical data in Pāṇini, vide J. of U P. H S Vol. 16 pp 10-51 by Dr. V S. Agrawala and IHQ Vol. 21 pp. 297-314 for countries in the Purāṇas and Dr. D. C. Sirkar's 'Text of the Purāṇic list of peoples' in IHQ vol: 19 pp. 297-314. It appears from (*Continued from last page*) Pāṇini that he was well acquainted with the whole of India from the extreme northwest to Kaliṅga (modern Orissa) and Aśmaka (region about Ajanṭā and Paiṭhan) and modern Kutch as he expressly names Gāndhāra (IV. 1. 169), Suvāstu (in IV 2. 77, modern Swat), Kamboja (IV. 1 175) and Takṣaśīlā (IV. 3. 93), Sindhu (IV. 3. 93), Śalātura (IV. 3. 94, the birth place of Pāṇini who is hence called Salāturīya by later writers like Bhāmaha), Sauvīra (IV 1. 148), Kaccha (IV. 2. 133), Magadha, Kaliṅga, Sūramasa (Surma valley ?) in IV. 1. 170, Aśmaka (IV. 1. 173). Cunningham's 'Ancient Geography of India (1872), Nundolal Dey's 'The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval India' (1927), 'Bibliography of Ancient Geography of India' by Surendranath Majumdar' in I. A. Vol. 48 (for 1919) pp. 15-23 and 'the list of Tīrthas' in the author's H. of Dh. vol. IV. pp 723-825 may be consulted for ancient Indian Geography.