Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.41

c8.41

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 132 | Bandhumatī | A city. | VI, 480. | |
| 133 | Bahukā | A river—spoken of together with the Gayā river. | V, 388-G. 199. | Paṭiṭṭhāna—modern Paiṭhan, on the north bank of the river Godāvarī, 28 miles to the south of Auraṅgābād; *G. D.*, pp. 157-9. |
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| | | | | It is probably the same as the *Bahudā* of the *Mahābhārata* and identical with the river Dhabalā now called Dhumela or Burhā-Rāptī, a feeder of the Rāptī in Oudh : *Cf. De, op. cit.*, 16. Pargiter, however, identifies it with the Rāmaṅgā that which joins the Ganges on the left near Kanauj : *Mārk, P.*, pp. 291-2; See Barua, *Gayā and Buddhagayā*, p. 87 note. |
| 134 | Bārāṇasī | City—Capital of Kāsī; it was 12 leagues in extent and a great centre of trade. | See Anderson's Index. V, I, 125, 314; II, 244; III, 87, 239, 410, 446; IV, 214, 269, 378; VI, 160. | Modern Benares. |