Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c7.9

c7.9

In our attempt to do so, we shall have to face many a fictitious or fabulous name. But that is, at the same time, no reason why we should discard it altogether. This will be clear when we remember that the names of some of the countries, cities, mountains and rivers occuring in the *Purāṇas* and the *Epics*, which were considered to be fictitious or fabulous years ago,¹ have, now in the light of further research, come to be regarded as based on facts.² This makes it incumbent upon us to put down the results of our geographical knowledge derived from the *Jātakas*, bearing always in mind that that which looks fabulous now may prove to be a fact in future.