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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.27

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.27

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c8.27

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
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| | | it was a very busy trading centre from which traders sailed to Suvaṇṇabhūmi. | VI, 34. | ruins—24 miles to the east of Bhāgalpur, *C.A.G.I.*, pp. 546-7. |
| | | | | It is very probable that these emigrant-traders settled in Suvaṇṇabhūmi (or Lower Burmā) first, and then further East, and established the great settlement of the same name—Campā in Indo-China. See R. C. Majumdar, *Campā*, intro., pp. xxii-xxiii, De, *J.A.S.B.*,1914;Elliot,*Hinduism and Buddhism*, III, pp. 137 *ff.* |
| 91 | Cittakūṭa | A mountain in the Himavanta. | II, 107, 176 ; III, 208, 209, 247, 248 ; IV, 212-4, 215-218, 423-4, 427, 430 ; V, 337-8, 352, 354-8, 365, 381 ; VI, 125, 126-G. 561, 127. | If it is the same as mentioned in the *Rāmāyaṇa* and the *Purāṇas* it may be identified with the hill lying 65 miles W. S. W. of Allāhābād, Raychaudhury, *Studies in Indian Antiquities*, p. 134; but the *Jātaka’s* association of it with the Himālayas is rather inexplicable. |

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