Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.76

c8.76

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 194 | Sudassana | A city—an older name for Bārāṇasī. | IV, 119 ; V, 177, 191-G. 240. | ? |
| 195 | Sudassana | A mountain—one of the seven mountains. | VI, 125-G. 556, 204-G. 880, 212-G. 916. | |
| 196 | Suppāraka | A seaport town, not directly mentioned, but clearly to be noticed in the name given to the master-mariner in the Suppāraka Jātaka, where, on the contrary, Bharukaccha stands out more prominently, thus indicating that Suppāraka was a later development but earlier than the time of Aśoka, or may be, vice versa. | IV, 137, 138, 139-G. 105-7 ; 140-G. 109-11 141-G. 113-15. | It is the well-known Sūrpāraka of the *Periplus*: Scoff, *op. cit.*, p. 43, and the Soupara of Ptolemy: *I.A.* 1884, p. 325, and is identical with the modern Sopārā in the Thāṇā district 37 miles from Bombay and 4 miles from Bassein, where one of the edicts of Aśoka was found: Bhandarkar, *R. A. S.*, XV, pp. 273 *ff.* Its connection with the Ophir of the Bible does not seem to be tenable. *Cf. J. B. H. S.*, I, pp. 65-77. |