Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.65

c8.65

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 177 | Vettavatī | A city—situated on the bank of the river of that name in the Mejjha kingdom. | IV, 388. | near Nāsik and is in the north of Bassein, (3) a river in Kurukṣetra and (4) a river in Gharwāl: on the road between Kedāra and Badrīnāth. Law, *G. E. B.* p. 40. |
| 178 | Vettavatī | A river on which stood the city of Vettavatī. | IV, 388. | It is no doubt identical with the Vetravatī mentioned in Kālidāsa's *Meghadūtam*, 25. It is mentioned in the *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa*, pp. 57, 20; *cf.* also *Milindapañho*, p. 114. It is identified with the modern Beṭwā which rises near Bhopāl and flows into the Jumnā; Pargiter, *Mārk. P.*, p. 295. There was another river of this name in western India as Pargiter points out. *Ibid.* |