Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.87

c8.87

| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 208 | Hatthipura | A city, to the east of Sotthivatī, the capital of Cetiya kingdom. | III, 460. | Difficult to identify. It may possibly be connected with the famous Hastināpura which is identified with an old town in Mawānā Tahshīl, 22 miles N. E. of Meerut: *C. A. G. I.*, pp. 701-2. |
| | | | | to the Sophir, the Septuagint version of Ophir. We do not share the opinion of the learned editor of the *Periplus* that "later scholarship has been considered sufficiently sure in discrediting India altogether to have possessed that golden land—be it Suppāra or Sovira or the Malabar coast—and locating it (Ophir) on the Arabian coast of the Persian gulf." Scoff, *The Periplus*, p. 175. |