Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.5

c8.5

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 14 | Assakaṇṇagiri | A mountain. | VI, 125-G. 556. | Somewhere beyond the Himālayas; See *Sutta Nipāta Commentary*, II, 443. |
| 15 | Assapura | A city said to have been built by the second son of King Upacara to the south of the Ceta Kingdom. | III, 460. | Perhaps identical with that mentioned in the *Mahā-Assapura Suttanta* of the *Majjhima Nikāya*, I, 4, 6, as situated in the Aṅga country; it cannot be definitely located. |
| 16 | Ahidīpa | Same as Kāradīpa an island near Nāgadīpa which could be reached from Kāvira-paṭṭana in a short time. | IV, 238. | If Nāgadīpa be located in Nicobar (see infra) Ahidīpa should be placed near the Andamans; See Nāgadīpa. |
| 17 | Ākāsagaṅgā | Ganges. | III, 344; V, 124. | Certainly Ganges in its earlier course, high upon the Himālaya mountains; cf. *Mahābhārata*, *Vanaparva*, ch. 127; it is the *Svargaṅgā* of the *Amarakośa*, V, 44. |
| 18 | Indapatta | A city-capital of Kuru Kingdom. | II, 213, 366, 368; III, 400; IV, 361; V, 57, | It is the Indraprastha of the *Mahābhārata* and the *Purāṇas*; it |