India As Described In Early Texts Of Buddhism and Jainism

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Bimlacharan Law

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or Rohwaini, a small stream which joins the Rapti at Gorakhpur.1 According to Dhammapāla, it flowed from north to south to the northwest of Rājagaha. And the third, Kakutthā, was a river near Kusinārā 3 which appears to have formed, at one point at least, a boundary between the two Malla territories. Other rivers mentioned are: Campā, Kosiki, Migasammatā, . Hiraññavati, Sappini, Sutanu, Salalavati and Vettavati. Of them, the Campā formed a boundary between Anga in the east and Magadha in the west. It is probably the same river as one to the west of Campānagar and Nāthnagar in the suburb of the town of Bhagalpur. The Kosiki, modern Kuáī, is just a branch of the Ganges,5 The Migasammatā was a river which rising in the Himalayas flowed into the Ganges. The Hiraññavati is the Little Gandak and the same as Ajitavati near Kusīnārā which flows through the district of Gorakhpur about eight miles west of the Great Gandak and falls into the Ghogrā (Sarayū). On the bank of it once stood the Sal forest of the Mallas of Kusīnārā.?
1 Arch. Surv. of India, xii, p. 190f. 2 Therigäthä-atthakainā, i, p. 501; Malalasekera, op, oit., il, p. 762. 8 Dīgha, ii, pp. 129, 184f.; Udāna, viii, 5. 4 Jätaka, iv, p. 454.
8 Ibid., v, pp. 2, 5, 6. The river is called Koaikā And Kosikiganga. & Ibid., vi, p. 72.
Dīgha, ü, p. 187.