Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.38
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.38
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 119 | Nārivana | A forest in the Himavanta. | V, 152. | ? |
| 120 | Nālika | A mountain in the Himavanta, on the N. W. of which was the lake Mucalinda. | VI, 518-G. 1942-3, 59. | ? |
| 121 | Nisabha | A mountain near the Himavanta. | VI, 204-G. 880, 212-G. 916. | It is probably the same as the Niṣadha of the Purāṇas. It should be identified with the ‘Paropanisad’ of the Greeks, now called the Hindukush : *I. A.* LXII, p. 169 ; De, *G. D.* p. 141. |
| | | | | seems to locate it in the North-western part of Ceylon ; Jayaswāl’s identification of it with Nicobār is however noteworthy: *History of India*, 150 A. D.—350 A. D., p. 155 : Majumdar’s suggested identification of it with Elephaṇṭā is out of question. For the traditional origin of Nicobār Islands, See Barbe, *J. R. A. S.*, 1846, pp. 344-6. |
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