Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.83

c8.83

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 205 | Soṭumbarā | A river. | VI, 507-G. 1861. | Kasēh referring to Maṇipur and Assam in general still known as Khāsia hills, goes only to support our proposition: *Some Aspects of the Vāyu Purāṇa*, p. 18. Prof. Rhys Davids's doubt as to its connection with Sumer or Akkad is out of the question. *B. I.*, p. 104. n. |
| | | | | It is not mentioned, as far as we know, in any other work. It looks like a different dialectical pronunciation of Oḍumbarā or Koḍumbarā—all from one and the same Austro-Asiatic root *ḍuma* or *Tumba* which is a name of a fruit "a sort of Colocyntida which the Botanists call *Lagenaria vulgaris*" or gourd. The river then will have to be located in the Puñjāb where |