Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c12.s3.33

c12.s3.33

Thus, the ancient Mallas should be located in the Gorakhpur district. They inhabited the land between the Licchavis of Vesālī and that of the Sakyas of Kapilavatthu, the Moriyas and Koliyas, to the east of the Kosalans, whose territory it probably was during the Brāhmaṇic period.¹ Kusinārā was not far to the south-east of Kapilavatthu, nor was Pāvā far from Vesāli.² To the south of the Mallas lay the territory of the Kālāmas of Kesaputta and the Ganges, and to the north lay the Himālayan hills bordering on their land.³ But at the present stage of our knowledge, their exact boundaries connot be ascertained.