[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939) › c8.55 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.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. | - [Previous: c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8.54) - [Next: c8.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8.56) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8) ## Cites (3) - [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.1.8.2.p6) — Pāli - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.mehta-1939.c8.55) · Pramāṇa