Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s8.1
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s8.1
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v2.c35.s8.1
From the geographical evidences collected by Dr. B. C. Law² about the Uttarāpatha, it appears it might have originally indicated the high road running north from Magadha to the northwest but later on it denoted the area west of Pṛthudaka (Pehoa, about 14 miles west of Thaneswar) and "comprised the Punjab people including Kashmir and the adjoining hill states with the whole of eastern Afghanistan beyond the Indus, and the present Cis-Sutlej States to the west of the Saraswati.³