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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.28

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.28

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c8.28

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 92 | Ceta (ti) | A kingdom. | I, 253 ; III, 454 ; 514-G. 1910. | It is Cedi mentioned as early as the *Rg-Veda* (viii, 5, 37-9). |
| | | It is stated to be 30 leagues distant from Jetuttara, the capital of the Sivi Kingdom. | VI, 514. | Even in Vedic times it was probably situated in the same locality as in the later period (*Ved. Ind.*, I, p. 263.) *i.e.*, along the south bank of the Jumnā, from the river Chambal on the N. W., to Karwi on the S. E. thus roughly corresponding to modern Bundelkhaṇḍ and a part of C. P., Pargiter, *Mārk. P.*, p. 359 ; *C. A. G. I.*, p. 725 ; *De, G. D.*, p. 48. |
| | | There was a high road between Kāsī and Ceti, which, being infested with roving bands of marauders, was not safe. | I, 253-4. | |
| | | Its capital was Sotthivati. | III, 454. | It is mentioned in the *Aṅguttara Nikāya*, (*P. T. S.*) IV, p. 101. It is not identifiable. |
| 93 | Chaddanta | A lake in the Himavanta. | V, 37, 38, 39. | *Supra.* p. 364. |
| 94 | Jambudīpa | One of the four Great Continents. | See *Andersen's Index.* | |
| 95 | Jetuttara | A city—capital of Sivi kingdom. | VI, 480, 484-G.-1698,486, 487, 514, 545, 566, 574, 580, 592. | *Cf. Mahāvaṃsa*, 89, 5 ; it should be located near Nagari, a small town 11 miles north of Chitor |

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