Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.21

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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| | | of water"; merchants from Bharukaccha passed by it in search of wealth; diamonds were found there. | | supposed to have lived in the sea and civilized them, is well-known. "Khar" was a Babylonian God mentioned in their inscriptions of the time of Khammurabi (2200 B. C.); Sayce, *Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylon*, p. 79; Jayaswal, *J. B. O. R. S.*, VI, p. 195. |
| 71 | Khema | A lake in Bārāṇasī. | IV, 424, 427; V, 356, 374-G. 145. | ? |
| 72 | Khemā | A river, flowing straight from the Himavanta. | V, 199-G. 19. | If it has any connection with Khemāvatīnagara or simply Khema, the birth-place of the Buddha Krakuchchada, it may be located near Gutiva, 4 miles to the south of Tilaura in the Nepalese Terai; P. C. Mukerji, *Antiquities of Terai, Nepal*, pp. 49, 55; De, *G. D.*, p. 99. |