Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.75
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.75
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| | | was filled with creepers and fragrant plants. | | lake in the Thian-Shan mountains: *McCrindle, Ptolemy*, p. 280; *J. A. S. B.*, 1838, p. 283; *Beal, Buddhist Records*, I, 12 note. But it is more correct to identify it with the Yārkand or Zarafshan, as the Paurāṇic description of it as the Eastern river shows. See Watters, *Yuan Chwang*, I, p. 32, II, pp. 283 *ff.* Raychaudhury, *Studies in Indian Antiquities*, pp. 75-6. |
| 193 | Sthapura | A city to the west of the Ceta—capital Sotthivati. | III, 460. | It may be identical, though we are not sure, with Yuan Chwang's Singha-hu-lo or Singhapura situated at 700 *li* or 117 miles to the S. E. of Taxila identified with Ketas by Cunningham, *C. A. G. I.*, pp. 144 *ff.* |
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