Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.18
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.18
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 64 | Kokanada | A country(?) famous for lute-making. | V, 281, 290. | Pargiter identifies it with the Kokaṅkanas, mentioned in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa as a people in the North West classed with the Trigartas and Darvas; Mārk. P., p. 372 and note; 380 and note; if it be so, it can, very well, be identical with Kikiangna of Yuan Chwang which is identified by Stein with Waziristan; C. A. G. I., p. 679. |
| 65 | Koṭumbara | A country famous for linen clothes (khomakoṭumbarāṇi). | VI, 47-G. 166 ; 500-G. 1801. | It is one of the group of countries named after trees, like Uduṁbara. See J. Przyluski, Journal Asiatique, 1926, pp. 25 ff. It is so mentioned in the Milinda-pañho—Questions of King Milinda, (S. B. E.) I, p. 2. We long suspected its identity with Audumbara and, to our agreeable surprise, found a support in |
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- Milindapañha — Pāli