Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c7.31

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c7.31

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c7.31

As to PUbBAVIDEHA we have no internal data to identify it. But a passage of the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa⁸ which calls BHADRĀŚVA as PŪRVA-DVĪPA makes us feel certain of the identity between Pubbavideha and Bhadrāśva which is, in turn, identifiable with Eastern Turkestan and North China.⁹

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Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit