Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.14

c8.14

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 55 | Kimbilā | A town. | VI, 121-G. 521 | Is it Kimbilā of the *Cullavamsa*? (*P. T. S.*) I, pp. 12, 46; *Mahāvaṃsa* 46, 12-13. Also *Aṅguttara Commentary*, II, 642. |
| 56 | Kumbhavatī | A city—Capital of Daṇḍaki. | III. 463 ; V, 134. | According to the *Rāmāyaṇa*, vii, 79, 18, the name of the capital of Daṇḍaka was Madhumanta, while the *Mahāvastu*, Senart's ed. p. 363, places it at Govardhana (Nāsik); *P. H. A.*, I. p. 62. |
| 57 | Kuru | A kingdom. | II, 214-G. 154 ; III, 400; IV, 361, 444 ; V, 57, 457, 474, 484 ; VI, 255, 278, 322, 325, 329. | “The ancient Kuru country may be said to have comprised the Kurukṣetra and Thāneśwar. The district formerly included Sonepat, was situated between the Saraswatī (mod. Sarsuti) on the north and the Dṛṣadvatī (mod. Rākṣhi) on the south ; De *G. D.* p. 110; *C. A. G.* I., p. 701. |