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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.35

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.35

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c8.35

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 110 | Dunnivittha | A village in Kaliṅga and some 5 yojanas far from Arañjaragiri. | VI, 514, 521. | generally identified with Vidiśā or Bhilsā region in C. P.; Law, G. E. B., p. 26. De, G. D., p. 54. |
| 111 | Doṇa | A *tittha*—a sacred place for offering gifts; spoken together with Gayā and Bāhukā and Timbaru. | V, 388-G. 199. | ? |
| 112 | Dvārakā | A city. | IV, 85-G. 141. | Same as Dvāravatī. |
| 113 | Dvāravatī | A city : on one side of it was the sea and on the other mountains : it was very strongly built. | IV, 82, 83, 84, 85. | It is the 'Barake' of the *Periplus*, p. 389. Originally it was situated near the mountain Girmār ; perhaps in later days it came to be recognised as the same as modern Dvārkā on the seashore on the extreme west coast of Kāṭhiāwāḍ: *Purātattva*, IV, pp. 101 *ff.* Nāgarī Pracāriṇī Patrikā, 12 (N. S.), pp. 97 *ff.* |

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