India As Described In Early Texts Of Buddhism and Jainism

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

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GEOGRAPHY
Ujjeni and Mahissati stood on the Southern High Road extending from Rajagaha to Patitthāna via Vesali, Kapilavatthu, Sāvatthi
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Kuraraghara was a town in Avanti adjoining the Papatapabbata. Among other localities, mention may be made of Ghanaselapabbata, Makkarakata, Velugama and Sudassanapura. The country or kingdom may be taken to have corresponded roughly to 'modern Malwa, Nimar and adjoining parts of the Central Provinces'." Vedisa or Vedisagiri (identified by Cunningham with the modern Bhilsa in the Gwalior State, 26 miles north-east of Bhopal) lay on the road to Ujjeni, at a distance of fifty yojanas from Paţaliputta. Second in importance to Avanti was the kingdom or country of Surasena with Madhura, Mathura, modern Muttra on the right bank of the Yamuna as its capital. Sūrasena, often mentioned with Kaccha, is placed to the south of the Kuru country. The way from Savatthi to Madhura lay through an important locality called Verañjā. Maccha (Sk. Matsya)
1 JRAS., 1906, p. 453, ibid, 1898, p 533.
* Sutta-napata, v, 101-13
3 Samyutta, in, pp. 9, 12, iv, p. 115f, Angutiara, v, p 48
* Malalasekera, op. cit., 11, p. 935.
5 Law, Geography, p 22.
6 Law, Geography, p. 22.
7 Mahabodhivamsa, p. 98. 8 Law, Geography, p. 20.
• Malalasekera, 11, p. 980,