Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.44

c8.44

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 139 | Bharukaccha | A sea-port town of Bharu kingdom. | III, 188, 190-G. 57 ; IV, 137, 138, 139-G. 106, 140-G. 108, 110, 112, 141-G. 114, 116, 142. | Watters, Yuan Chwang, II, p. 241. This may equate it with modern Gujarāt. It is Barygaza of Ptolemy and the *Periplus* and Bargoza of Strabo: See McCrindle, *Ancient India* as Described in Classical Literature, pp. 78 ff; Scoff, *The Periplus*, pp. 40, 287. It is modern Broach. |
| | | From the port, traders went to Suvaṇṇabhūmi probably via Taṃbapaṇṇi and Nāgadīpa—and also towards the west across the Arabian Sea and the Persian gulf. | III, 188. | |
| | | | III, 126-7. | |
| | | | IV, 137-142. | |
| 140 | Bhāgīrathī | A river. | V, 255-G. 27 ; VI, 204-G. 879. | It is the name given to the stream which rises at Gangotri in the mountains of Garwāl (in the Rudra Himālaya) and is considered to be the primary and the holiest source of the Ganges. See De, *The early Course of the Ganges*, I, A., L., p. 10. Later on |