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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.25

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.25

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c8.25

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 80 | Gijjhakūṭa | A mountain. | II, 50, 55; III, 255, 484; V, 424; VI, 204, 212. | Cunningham has identified it with the lofty hill now called Śailagiri; *C. A. G. I.*, p. 534; it lies two miles and a half to the S. E. of the present town of Rājgir; it is also called Giryek hill; Law, *G. E. B.*, p. 41. |
| | | It was near Rājagaha. | II, 55. | |
| 81 | Godhāvarī | A river, near which was the forest of Kaviṭṭhavana, 3 leagues in extent. | V, 132, 136. | Mod. Godāvarī; it has its source in Brahmagiri situated on the side of a village called Tryambaka, twenty miles from Nā-sik. De, *G. D.*, p. 69; it falls into the Bay of Bengal. |
| 82 | Goyānīya | One of the four great continents. | VI, 278-G. 1212. | Supra. p. 364. |
| 83 | Govaddhana | A village in the Kaṃsa district in Uttarāpatha. | IV, 80. | Perhaps connected with the mountain by name Govardhana near Mathurā of the Epic. *Cf. Hari-vaṃśa*, ch. 55. |
| 84 | Ghanasela | A mountain in the kingdom of Avanti in Dakkhiṇāpatha. | III, 463; V, 133. | ? |
| 85 | Cakkadaha | A Lake | IV, 232. | ? |

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