Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.47

c8.47

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| | | | | of Bakhdhi mentioned in the *Avestā* (*Vendīdād*), ch. I, (S.B.E. Vol. I, p. 2) which was the ancient name of Balkh.” *I. H. Q.*, II, pp. 518-9. According to Strabo, Balkh was the ornament of all Ariana: McCrindle, *Ancient India*, pp. 100 *ff*. Hamilton and Falconer, *Strabo*, II, pp. 252-3. It is however also possible that the place is identical with its namesake Bhogavatīpura Nāgapura, the capital of Śāvaka—the Tamilian form of Jāvā. See S. K. Aiyangar, *Some Contributions*, pp. 374 *ff*; it was also, another name for Ujjayinī: Raychaudhury, *P. H. A. I.*, p. 378. It seems from all this that Bhogavatī was essentially a general name for a Nāga capital. |