Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.20

c8.20

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 69 | Kosiki | A river—a tributary of the Ganges in the Himavanta region. | V, 2, 5-G. 11. | Identical with the modern Kusi or Kosi; De, *G. D.*, p. 97 ; it flows into the Ganges on its north bank through the district of Purnea; it has shifted its course : Pargiter, *Mārk. P.*, p. 292. See discussion, *Indian Culture*, I and II. |
| 70 | Khuramālā | A sea, "where fish with bodies like men and sharp razor-like snouts dive in and out | IV, 139-G. 106. | According to Mr. Jayaswāl, "the Babylonian National legend of their Man-Fish (Oannes) who was south by the Sarpikā or Syandikā (Sai) river, on the east by the Sadānīrā, wihch separated it from Videha, and on the north by the Nepal hills : it corresponds roughly to the modern Oudh. *P. H. A. I.*, p. 70. See Sāketa and Sāvatthi. |