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Payaga (NC. 3, p. 195 ): , and Ganjam (CAGI., p. 421). It is identified with modern Díņāra was the famous goldAllahabad at the confluence coin of Puvvadesa. of Ganga and Yamuna
Rayagiha (NC. 1, pp. 9, (CAGI., pp. 327-29). It is
17, 20; NC. 4, pp. 101, 109, an unholy place according to
126): It is identified with the NC.
modern Rajgir (CAGI., p. Pukkhara (NC. 3, p. 145) : | 394). One of the ten anciIt is identified with modern ent capitals of India it is Puşkara, six miles away from famous for its hot-water Ajmer ( GD., p. 163 ). springs.
Paundravardhana : NC. 4, Roma ( NC. 2, p. 399): It p. 144 ): It might be same as ) is perhaps same as Ruma Pandya, a country between which has been identified by Jhelam and Ravi (vide-LAI., H. E. Wilson with Sambhar p. 323 ).
(vide-LAI., p. 365 ). It is Purima or Puri (NC. 2, | famous for a fine variety of 328 ): Purt on the western cloth. coast is to be identified with
Saga (NG. 4, p. 125 ): It Chandapur or Chandor in
is identified with the country the present Goa territory or
of the Sakas in central Asia. with Gharapuri, the Elephanta island across the Sapatthi (NC. 2, p. 466; Bombay harbour (Virji, K.J., | NC. 4, p. 103): Savatthí, also Ancient History of Saurashtra, known as Kunālānayarí, is p. 67). It was a famous identified with Sahet-Mahet Jalapatjana where the goods on the bank of the Rapti were carried by water ways. (CAGI., p. 345 ).
Puvvadesa (NC. 2, p. 94; Simdhu (NC. 1, p. 133; NC. 3, p. 111): It is identi- NC. 2, pp. 79, 150; NC. 3, fied with the eastern division pp. 566, 594; NC. 4, p. 90): of India which comprised According to Yuan Chwang, Assam, Bengal proper, toge- Simdhu comprised the whole ther with the Delta of the valley of the Indus from the Ganges, Sambhalpur, Orissa | Punjab to the sea, including
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