Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.67
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.67
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 183 | Sāketa | A city—capital of Kosala. | III, 270, 272-G. 70; V, 13; VI, 228-G. 999; III, 272-G. 70. | Cf. *Mahāvastu* (Senart's ed.) I, 348. Sāketa was an earlier capital of Kosala than Sāvatthi, but later than Ayojjā. Sāketa is not the same as Ayodhyā as is often supposed. See *C. A. G. I.*, p. 464. Bhandarkar, *C. L.*, p. 51 (1918). Prof. Rhys Davids has successfully pointed out that both the cities were existing in the time of the Buddha, possibly adjoining each other like London and Westminster: *Buddhist India*, p. 39. It is identified with the ruins at Sujānkoṭ (or Sanchan-koṭ) 34 miles N. W. of Uṇāo in Oudh, on the river Sai: *Ibid.* De, *G. D.*, p. 174. It is the Sāgeda of Ptolemy and the Shachi of Fa-Hian: De, *op. cit.*, p. 174. Legge, *Travels of Fa-Hian*, p. 54. |