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Sahehr is in Gonda district and Maher is in Bahraich district. Maher is in the north and Sahehr is in the south. This place is ten miles away from the road that goes from Balrampur station of the North Eastern Railway. It is located 29 miles from Bahraich.
According to scholar B. Smith, Sravasti is in the Khajura province of Nepal and it is in the north of Balpur and near the north-east of Nepalganj. 2 Yuan Chuang has considered Sravasti as a Janpad and its extent is six thousand li, its capital is called 'Prasad Nagar', whose extent is considered to be twenty li. 3
Jain perspective, this city was situated on the banks of the Achiravati (Rapti) river. There was very little water in it, which Jain monks used to cross for alms. Sometimes there were very heavy floods in it. Sravasti has been a center of Buddhist and Jain culture. The historical dialogue between Keshi and Gautam took place here. Many historical events are associated with that land. Bhagwan Mahavira had spent his tenth Chaturmas in the state of Chhadmasthav in Sravasti. Even after attaining Kevalgyan, he had visited there many times and had given Pravrajya to hundreds of people and made thousands of people devotees. In the Kosthakodyan of Sravasti, Goshalak had killed Sunakshatra and Sarvanubhuti Munis from Tejoleyshya and had also projected Tejoleyshya on Bhagwan Mahavira. Goshalak's supreme devotee Ayampul and Halahal Kumharin were residents of this place.
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The Ancient Geography of India, pp. 469-474.
Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Part 1, Jan. 1900
Yuan Chuang's Travels in India, Part 1, p. 377
(a) Kalpasutra
(b) Brihatkalpa Sutra, 4 | 33.
(c) Brihatkalpa Bhashya, 4 | 5639, 5653,
(a) Aavashyak Churni, p. 601
(b) Aavashyak Haribhadriya Vritti, p. 465.
(c) Aavashyak Malayagiri Vritti, p. 567
(d) Tauni's Katha Kosh, p. 6.
Uttaraadhyayana
See the present text.