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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.24

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.24

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c8.24

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 77 | Gambhīra | A port (paṭṭanagāmo). | I, 239. | Arrian) is represented by the modern Prang and Charsadda, 17 miles N. E. of Peshāwar, on the Swāt river, *P. H. A. I.*, p. 39. |
| 78 | Gayā | A river—a sacred *tittha* for offering sacrificial gifts; spoken together with Bāhukā, Doṇa and Timbaru. | V, 388-G. 199. | Has it any connection with the river of the same name which flows 7 or 8 miles north of Anurādhapura, Ceylon. *Cf. Mahāvamsa*, (P.T.S.) p. 290, Law, *G. E. B.*, p. 71. |
| 79 | Garahita | A mountain. | II, 186. | It is the same as the river Phalgu on which stands Gayā. It is still a sacred place where pilgrims flock; See Barua, *Gayā and Buddah Gayā*, p. 87 and note, 239-240. |

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