Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.15

c8.15

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 58 | Kusamālā | Its extent was 300 leagues ; its capital was Indapatta. | V, 484. See below. | See Indapatta. |
| | | An ocean; green (nīlavaṇṇa) and grassy-like; merchants from Bharukaccha went there for trading purposes; here a great quantity of precious emeralds was to be found. | IV, 140-G. 112. | Ocean named probably after the Kuśadvīpa of the Purāṇas, identified with Nubia on the N. E. coast of Africa. This identification led to Captain Speke's discovery of the Source of the Nile (Scoff, *Periplus*, p. 230); the Kushites were masters of Nubia as early as the 22nd-18th cent. B. C., as their name appears in inscriptions of that period : Jayaswal, *J.B.O.R.S.*, VI, p. 195. |
| 59 | Kusāvatī | A city—capital of Malla country; it is said to have been 100 leagues far from Sāgala, the capital of Madda kingdom. | I, 392 ; V, 278, 285, 293, 294, 297. V, 290. | An older name of Kusinārā, so much famous in the Buddhist period, being the place where the Buddha obtained Parinirvāṇa; it was, very probably, near the modern village of Kāsīā, on the smaller Gaṇḍak |