Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.56
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.56
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 165 | Rajatapabbata | A mountain in the Himavanta. | II, 6, 7. | Apparently one of the shining peaks of the great Himalayan Range. |
| 166 | Ramma | A city—an older name for Bārāṇasi. | IV, 119, 120, 122-G. 78. | ? |
| 167 | Rājagaha | A city—capital of Magadha. | I, 143, 154, 162, 350, 373, 444, 446, 466, 468, 469, 489 ; II, 55 ; III, 238, 293, 479 ; IV, 37, 38, 276 ; V, 161, 247 ; VI, 271-G. 1175. | It must be identified with the old Rājagaha or Girivraja—the ancient capital of Magadha, known in Huentsang's time as Kuṣāgārapura—Kiu-she-kie-lo-pu-lo : Watters, Yuan Chwang, II, 149 ff; The Chinese traveller has left us a living picture of this old city, which was, however, burned down by fire already during the reign of Bimbisāra, who built a new capital near by called the new Rājagaha—mod. Rājgir : C. A. G. I., pp. 528 ff; Watters, op. cit., p. 162. Law, G. E. B., p. 11 n. |
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