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# Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.2

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.2

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### [c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8.2)

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |  
| | | | VI, 432. | Mānasa lake, and others with the Rāvaṇhrad or Laṅgā; De, \*G. D.\*, p. 8. But recent explorers in the Mid-Asia tend to locate it in the vast tract of water near the water-divide of the Kārākoram pass where the headwaters of the Yārkand (Sītā) and the Shyok tributary of the Indus approach. See J. C. Vidyālaṅkār, Proc. \*Sixth Oriental Conference\*, 1930, pp. 109-10. |  
| 7 | Andhapura | Near by was the table-land of Manosilā. | I, 232; IV, 379; V, 392. | Cf. Sven Hedin, \*Trans-Himalaya\*, II, p. 123. |  
| | | A city; a river named Telavāhā flowed between it and the Seriva Kingdom. | I, 111. | Capital of the Āndhras; De, \*op. cit.\*, p. 7; perhaps an ancient name of mod. Bezwāḍā: \*P. H. A. I.\*, p. 64. |  
| 8 | Ayojjhā | A city. | IV, 82. | Once famous Ayodhyā: it is the A-yu-te of Yuan Chwang who places it 600 \*li\* (100 miles) to the |

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## Cites (1)

- [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.1.1.3.p1) — Pāli

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