Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.62

c8.62

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 172 | Vaṃka | A mountain. | VI, 491-G. 1726 ; 513-G. 1904-5 ; 520, 523-G. 1969 ; 524-G. 1975 ; 525, 580, 592. | The *Saṃyutta Nikāya* (P. T. S.) II, pp. 191-2, says that Vaṃ-kapabbata was an older name of the Vepulla mountain near Rājagaha. See Law, *Annals* B. O. R. I., VIII, p. 164. But the *Jātaka*, curiously enough, distinguishes between the two (VI, 518-9) and locates Vaṃka in the Himālayas. |
| | | It was 30 *yojanas* far from the Ceta capital Sotthivatī and 60 *yojanas* from Jetuttara, the Sivi capital. The journey between it and Jetuttara took 2 months. | VI, 518-20; 514, 592. | but this is, as Dr. Raychaudhury points out, only a conjecture lacking any proof: *P. H. A. I.* p. 92. Yuan Chwang, speaking of the land of the Vatsas as the Kauśāmbī country, gives the extent as 6000 *li* (1200 miles) : Watters, *op. cit.*, I, p. 365. The country lay round about modern Kosam on the Yamunā, 30 miles to the S. W. of Allāhābād. |