Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.8

c11.s1.8

The ethnological table in the “Aitareya Brâhmana” (8, 14) shows how the Indian stocks group themselves from the standpoint of this text, where the incisions are, which separate the differently constituted divisions. In the middle “asyâm* dhruvâyâm madhyamâyâm pratisthâyâm diçi" lie the realms of the Kurupañcâlas together with Vaças* and Uçinaras. To the south of this Land of the Middle there dwell the Satvats, eastward the Prâcyas (we shall necessarily think chiefly of the Kâçi, Kosala,† Videha, and Magadha peoples), westward the Nîcyas, Apâcyas. In the north the Middle Land is bounded by the Himalaya, for as peoples north of the Middle those are named, who dwell parena Himavantam, the Uttarakurus and Uttaramadras.