Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.29

c8.29

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 96 | Takkasilā | A city—capital of Gandhāra ; it was a great seat of learning. | See Andersen's p. 61. | It was known to the Greeks as 'Taxila' ; it has been located by Cunningham near the ruins near Shāh-dheri, 12 miles N. W. of Rāwalpiṇḍi ; *C. A. G. I.*, pp. 680-1 ; see for the description of the ruins Marshall, *A Guide to Taxila*, pp. 1-4. |
| 97 | Tambapaṇṇi | An Island. There was a city named Sirisavatthu ; paddy grew wild. | II, 127, 129. | It is Tāmraparṇi of the *Purāṇas* and Taprobane of the Greeks, the first among whom to mention it is said to be Onesikritos, the pilot of Alexander's ship ; McCrindle, *Ancient India* as described in *Classical Literature*, pp. in Rājputānā, where several coins bearing the legend "*Majj-hamikāya Sivi Janapadassa*" have been found. It is however the Jettaraur of Alberuni, the capital of Mewār ; *C. A. G. I.*, p. 669 ; De, *G. D.*, p. 81. |