Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.9
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c8.9
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| No. | Name | Description | Reference | Identification |
| 34 | Kañcanaguhā | A cave in the Himālaya region; down the Cittakūṭa mountain; nearby was the Rajatapabbata with a cave, Phalikaguhā. | I, 491, 492 ; II, 6, 9. II, 176. II, 6. | modern town of Kankjol, 18 miles south of Rājmahal : *C. A. G. I.*, p. 548; De, *G. D.*, p. 83. It is mentioned in the *Udāna* commentary, 71, 105, as the dwelling-place of maned lions (*kesarasīhā*.) |
| 35 | Kañcanapabbata | A mountain in the Himavanta. | II, 396, 397, 399 ; VI, 100. | Perhaps it is a mountain among the chain of the Altai range which may rightly stand for all "golden" hills : *Cf.* Jayaswāl *I. A.* LXII, p. 170. |
| 36 | Kaṇṇapeṇṇā (veṇṇā) | A river in the Mahimsaka kingdom flowing from Lake Saṅkhapāla; at its bend stood the mountain Candaka. | V, 162, 163. | It occurs in Khāravela's Inscription (L. 3), if we accept Jayaswāl's reading as *Kaṇhaveṇāgatāya*, *J. B. O. R. S.*, III, p. 454; IV, 374, which is however challenged by Barua, *Old Brāhmī Inscriptions* p. 11, 208 *ff.*, who reads as *Kaḷiṅgagatāya* ; it is |
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