Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.72

c8.72

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 190 | Sirisavatthu | A city in the island of Tambapaṇṇi, where lived the Yakkhas. | II, 127. | It is mentioned in the Ceylonese chronicle *Mahāvaṃsa* as Sirivatthu where Vijaya slaughtered the *Yakkha* aborigines and established himself. *Cf.* Wijesingha, *Mahāvaṃso*, p. 32. But it is not identified. A Sirisapada occurs in a Barhut votive label, the similarity of which with our Sirisavatthu is noticed by Barua and Sinha who do not, however, hazard any identification. *Barhut Inscriptions*, p. 27. located somewhere in Chaldea if Mr. De is right in his identification. |
| 191 | Sivi | A kingdom. | IV, 401, 411 ; V, 210 ; VI, 419, 424, 480. | The Sivi people are seen to have occupied different places at different times. The Śivas of the *Ṛgveda*, VII, 187, were settled |