Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.78

c8.78

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 198 | Suriyapassa | A mountain in the Himavanta. | V, 30. | Some peak in the Himālayas which cannot be accurately located. Cf. *Saurye nāma Himavataḥ śṛṅge* in Patañjali's *Mahābhāṣya*. (Kielhorn's ed.) I, p. 150. Raychaudhury, op. cit., p. 103 and note. |
| | | | | sorts: very many cattle are pastured there and the men are of great stature and black in colour." (p. 39). It is of course modern Soraṭh. (Horaṭh is a dialectical variant) or Kāṭhiāwāḍ. The name also survives in modern Surat which owes its name to Arabic domination (Scoff, op. cit., p. 176), but which has no connection with Sauvīra as Rhys Davids wrongly supposes. *B. I.*, p. 38. |