Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.51

c8.51

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 152 | Mahimsaka | A kingdom. Its capital city was Sakula. It was outside the boundary of Magadharattha. The river Kannapennā issuing out of the lake of Mānusiya, flowed in the kingdom and on its bend stood the mount Candaka. | I, 356; V, 162, 337; V, 337. | Nowhere in the Purāṇas or in the Buddhist Pāli Literature does this name occur. One is however readily tempted to connect it with the people variously termed in the Purāṇas as Māhiṣakas, Mahisas, Māhiṣmakas: See Pargiter, Mārk, P., p. 333. But without going into the controversy about the identity between Mahiṣamaṇḍala and Mysore or Māhiṣmatī (See discussion between Rice and Fleet reprinted in Q. J. M. S., III, pp. 53-76), we may state that Mahimsaka appears clearly to be different from Māhiṣmatī; for, Mahimsaka was watered by the Kaṇṇapeṇṇā, while Māhiṣmatī stood on the Narmadā Cf. Munshi, I. A., LI, pp. 217 ff. J. R. A. S. 1910, pp. 867 ff. |