Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.43

c8.43

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 137 | Brahmavaddhana | A city—another name of Bārāṇasī. | IV, 119; V, 312, 313, 314, 316, | Benares ? |
| 138 | Bharu | A kingdom of which Bharukachcha was a sea-port town. | II, 171, 172; IV, 137. | It must have been a small kingdom with Bharukachcha (Broach) as its capital. Huen-Tsang gives a short but graphic description of it—his Po-lu-ka-che-po; according to him "it was 2400 or 2500 *li* in circuit *i.e.*, about 400 miles; the soil was brackish and vegetation sparse. Salt was made by boiling water and the people were supported by the sea." |
| | | | | to a passage from the *Mahābhārata* quoted by Majumdar, the Bāhīkas were also called Jārtikas (Jāts) and Āraṭṭas (the Arattai of the *Periplus*) C. A. G. I., pp. 686-7. Cf. Pargiter, *Mārk.*, p. 311 note. |