Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.69

c8.69

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 184 | Sātodakā | A river in, or rather on, the border (*sīmantare*) of Suraṭṭha country (*janapada*) | III, 463 ; V, 133. | It cannot be identified. The probability seems that it flowed on the East or South-East border of modern Kāṭhiāwāḍ (Suraṭṭha—Saurāṣṭra) as the sage Mendissara is said to have settled on its bank after passing the Kavitthaka forest situated on the Godāvarī. Is it the Sītodakā of the *Arthaśāstra*? See *Indian Culture*, I, p. 259. |
| 185 | Sālindiya | A village of the Brāhmaṇas to the E. or N. E. of Rājagaha. | III, 293, 298 ; IV, 276, 279. | ? |
| 186 | Sāvatthi | A city—capital of Kosala. | I, 331 ; III, 115, 168 ; V, 13 ; VI, 123-G. 546. | It is the famous city of the Buddhists where the Tathāgata delivered many of his discourses. It was 6 leagues N. of Sāketa, 45 leagues N. W. of Rājagaha, more than 100 leagues N. E. of Suppāraka, 30 leagues from Sankassa and on the bank of the |