Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.45

c8.45

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 141 | Beṇṇākaṭa | A country(Janapada). | VI, 237-G. 1062. | It is most probably the same as Beṇṇākaṭa occurring in the *Nāsik Inscriptions* where it is taken to be situated in the dist. of Govardhana(*i.e.*, Nāsik): *E.I.*, VIII, pp. 67-71; A. S. W. I., IV, p. 104; Rapson, *Coins of the Andhras*, Introd., pp. xxix, xxvii. Mr. V. S. Bakhle however rightly separates Beṇṇākaṭa from the ‘Govaddhanasa’ and looks for Beṇṇākaṭa outside the dist. of Nāsik. He has successfully tried to identify the country with the tract round about modern Kolhāpur and watered |
| | | | | it became synonymous with the Ganges. Tradition connects it with Bhagiratha, the Āryan hero : D. N. Sen, *Trans-Himālāyaṇ Reminiscences in Pāli Literature*, *I. A.*, L, p. 192. |