Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c7.52

c7.52

The *Jātakas*, also, are familiar with these divisions of India. Uttarāpatha is mentioned three times¹⁰; Dakkhiṇāpatha is mentioned in the *Sarabhaṅga* and *Indriya Jātakas*¹¹; Majjhimadesa is similarly mentioned a number of times¹²; The names of the other two divisions, viz., the Prācya and the Aparānta do not, however, find mention in the *Jātakas*. But their non-mention does not prove that they were unknown to the *Jātakas*, for the countries like Sovira,¹³ Bharu¹⁴ and Suraṭṭha,¹⁵ mentioned in the *Jātakas*, are apparently to be located in the Aparānta division; so also Kajaṅgala, mentioned in the Kapota Jātaka¹ and the Bhisa Jātaka,² is clearly the western boundary of the Prācya Deśa.