Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s3.t3.32

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¹⁰ VII, 8, 7-18; Mr. G. Ramdas disbelieves this; says he: "this forest (of Daṇḍaka) is said to have been devoid of trees, animals, and water and was converted into a region of ashes. If it had been so, how did so many hermitages exist there? From the descriptions of its parts visited by Rāma, it appears to have been full of rivers and lakes, and consequently habitable to men." The very name of Daṇḍaka in Sabara language, according to the same writer, denotes a region full of water." J. B. O. R. S., XI, pp. 45-7.