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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.55

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.55

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c8.55

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 162 | Yavamajjaka | The whirlpool (*āvatta*) in the river was well known as it was considered dangerous for a man to go there. | VI, 161-2. | The spot is not identified. |
| | | A market-town (*nigama*). It is a general name applied to the four market towns distinguished as eastern, southern, western and northern, according to their respective positions near the gateways of the city of Mithilā. | VI, 330-1 | These must have long perished if they ever existed at all, as Janakpur itself, the modern representative of Mithilā, is only a small town. See Mithilā. |
| 163 | Yāmuna | A mountain. | IV, 200-G. 867. | It is mentioned in the *Rāmāyaṇa* 4, 40, 19-‘*Yāmunaṁ ca mahā-girim*.’ It is the portion of the Bhandarapuccha range where the Yamunā has got its source. It is also called Kālinda-giri: De, *G. D.* p. 215. |
| 164 | Yugandhara | A mountain spoken together with Sineru. | I, 322; IV, 213, 214. | It must be a trans-Himālayan range. |

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