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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s1.t2.151

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c3.s1.t2.151

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c3.s1.t2.151

The Jātaka knows that Vāsudeva was a scion of the royal family—the Yādava, Sātvata or Vṛṣṇi of the Purāṇas—of Mathurā—Uttara Madhurā.¹⁰ The existence of a city named Asitañjanā and a separate district of Kaṃsa is unknown to other sources.¹¹