Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.t2.92
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c3.s2.t2.92
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² This at least seems to us to be the real solution. Raychaudhury's suggestion that the *Mahābhārata* and the *Jātakas* connect Bhallāṭa with Kāsī is not valid. The epic verse clearly distinguishes Bhallāṭa—Sūktimat from Kāsī whose king it names as Subāhu. As to the *Jātaka*, we have already referred to its usual obstinacy to bring in Kāsī anywhere and everywhere it likes.