Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.85

c8.85

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| | | | | *Purāṇas* and other works. See, for instance, *Mārk. P.*, pp. 57, 37; *Milinda Pañho* (S. B. E. XXXVI) p. 269. Various identifications have been proposed, but no satisfactory decision has been reached. Buddhist writings, besides the present *Jātaka* (*cf.* *Dīgha Nikāya* XIX, 36) give Roruka as the capital city of Sovīra. Roruva, as we saw (see under Roruva) is represented by the modern Alor, or Rora in Upper Sindh. Cunningham while discussing the identification of Alor—*C. A. G. I.*, pp. 294 *ff.*, did not notice this Roruka of the Buddhists and thus, unhesitatingly, separated Sovīra which he identified with the distant Vadri or Eder, a district |