Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.4

c8.4

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 11 | Avanti | A kingdom in Dakkhināpatha; its capital was Ujjeni. | III, 463; IV, 390; 397-G. 40; V, 133; IV, 390. | ern Shorkot in Jhang; P. H. A. I., p. 170. It roughly corresponds to modern Mālwā, Nimār and adjoining parts of C. P. : Law, G. E. B., p. 22; P. H. A. I., p. 102. Bhandarkar, C. L. p. 45. |
| 12 | Asitañjanā | A city in the district of Kaṃsa in Uttarāpatha. | IV, 79, 82. | Not identifiable; King Kaṃsa of the Great Epic, however, ruled at Mathurā: See Harivaṃśa, ch. 5, also Manorathapūraṇī |
| 13 | Assaka | A kingdom; it is associated with Avanti: Capital Poṭali. | III, 3; V, 317-G. 99. Ibid. II, 155; III, 3. | As it is clearly associated with Avanti, it must be located in the south, being different from that of the Greeks in the North; it is identical with that mentioned in the Suttanipāta, 977, as situated on the Godāvarī; an Asikanagara is mentioned in the Hāthigumphā Inscription of Khāravela. |