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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.82

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.82

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c8.82

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| | | | | *G. I.*, p. 752; Jayaswāl, *History of India*, 150-350 *A. D.*, p. 155. Firstly because, the description given in the *Jātaka* agrees with that location; secondly, in the Tibetan version of the same story it is Kaśeru (*Tibetan Tales*, pp. 228, 231); thirdly, the two words Seruma and Kaśeru are only two differently-pronounced forms of one and the same word. *Cf.* Lābu-Alābu-Kalābu; *Timun-Antemon*; *Katimun*; *Tumba-Odumba-Koṭumba*; all these are loan words of Austro-Asiatic root and prevalent in the Far-Eastern islands. See J. Przyluski in *op. cit.*, pp. 149 *ff.* Prof. Dikshitar's identification of Kaśerudvīpa with Krazeh or |