Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.57

c8.57

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| | | On the N. E. of it was a Brāhmaṇa village named Sālindiya. | III, 293 ; IV, 276. | |
| | | It was surrounded by mountains (Giribbaja), one of which was the Vepulla. | III, 479 ; VI, 271. | These are the famous five hills, well-known to Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina traditions and are now called Vaibhāra, Vipula, Ratna, Udaya and Sonagiri ; De, *G. D.*, pp. 66 *ff.* |
| 168 | Roruva | A city—Capital of Sovīra Kingdom. | III, 740. | It is the same as the Roruka of the *Dīgha Nikāya*, XIX, 36. A Roruka is also mentioned in the *Divyāvadāna*, (Cowell and Neil, pp. 544 *ff.*) which scholars usually identify with the Roruka of the *Nikāya* and Roruva of the *Jātaka*. Prof. Jinavijaya, however, has shown that the Roruka of the *Divyāvadāna* seems to be different from this but identical |