Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.40
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.40
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 127 | Payāga | A *tittha*—a sacred place for bathing where flowed the river Yamunā. | VI, 198-G. 857. | It must be taken to mean the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumnā, *i. e.*, at Allāhābād : Barua, *op. cit.*, p. 87 note. |
| 128 | Pāragaṅgā | A river | VI, 427. | It implies probably the downward course of the Ganges. |
| 129 | Pupphavatī | A city—older name of Benares. | IV, 119 ; VI, 131, 145-G. 655-662, 146. | Benares ? |
| 130 | Pubbavideha | One of the four great Continents. | VI, 278-G. 1212. | *Supra*, p. 364. |
| 131 | Poṭali | A city—capital of Assaka Kingdom. | II, 155, 156 ; III, 3. | It is the same as Poṭana of the *Dīgha Nikāya*, and Pauḍanya of the *Mahābhārata*. Mr. De considers it as the same as of mountains.’ It is there also mentioned shortly after Trikūṭa. It may be located in the Rudra Himālayas or Garwāl. De, *G. D.*, p. 196. |
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- Jātaka — Pāli