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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.36

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.36

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c8.36

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 114 | Dhammapāla | A village in Kāsī kingdom. | IV, 50. | ? |
| 115 | Nandamūlaka | A mountain in the Uttarahimavanta. | III, 240, 245, 304, 377, 379, 407, 433, 439, 471, 472 ; IV, 114-6, 342, 367-8, 370 ; V, 248. | ? |
| 116 | Nammadā | A river spoken together with the sea and the Ganges as containing big crabs. | II, 344-G. 51 ; IV, 392, 397-G. 40. | It is the river Nammadus of the *Periplus*, Scoff, op. cit. p. 30, and the *Nai-mo-te* of Yuan Chwang, Watters, op. cit. II, p. 241; it is the modern Narmadā which rises in the Amarakantaka mountain and falls into the gulf of Cambay. |
| 117 | Nalamālā | A sea : which, had the appearance of an expanse of reeds or a grove of bamboos; merchants from Bharukaccha passed across it in quest of riches : it was full of coral of the colour of the bamboos. | IV, 140, 141-G. 114. | It was a canal which took the *Jātaka* mariners from Kuśanīla country into the volcano sea (*Valabhā mukha*). It existed, as pointed out by Mr. Jayaswāl, in the time of Seti I, 1380 B.C.; this canal joined the Red Sea near the Bitter lake with |

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