Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.77

c8.77

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 197 | Suraṭṭha | Country (*Janapada*) on the borders of which flowed the river Sāṭoḍikā. | III, 463 ; V, 133. | Mentioned as early as in the Baud-hāyana Sūtra, I, 1, 29, “Surāṣ-ṭrāḥ, Dakṣiṇāpathāḥ.” It is the Saraoastos of Strabo : Hamilton and Falconer, Strabo, II, pp. 252-3; McCrindle, *Ancient India*, p.355; the Syrastrene of Ptolemy, Bk. III, Ch. I, and the *Periplus*: Scoff, *op. cit.*, pp. 39, 40; the Horatae of Pliny—I. A., 1884, p. 355, and the Sula-cha of Yuan Chwang: Watters, *op. cit.*, II, pp. 248-9; *C.A.G.I.*, p. 373. Yuan Chwang gives the circuit as 4000 *li* or about 667 miles. The author of the *Periplus* speaks of it as a “fertile country, yielding wheat and rice and sesame oil and clarified butter, cotton and the Indian cloths made therefrom of the coarser |