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Saubhanagara-Same as galvapura. Saukara-kshetra-Same as sakara-kshetra. Saundatti-Same as Sugandhavarti. Saurashtra-The Peninsula of Guzerat or Kathiawad, the Syrastrene of Ptolemy. The
name was also applied to the country from Sindh or the Indus to Baroach: that is, Guzerat, Cutch and Kathiawar (Rámdyana, Adi, ch. 13). Saurkjya was a synonym of Saurashtra (JASB., 1873, p. 105). Its capital was Balabhi (Da sakumaracharita, ch. 6). It was governed by the Satraps under Asoka and the Maurya kings, then by the Sah kings from the first century B.O. to the third century A.D., and after them by the Senâpatis under the Guptas of Kanouj. Under the Gupta emperors its capital was BAmanasthali, modern Banthali, before Balabhi became its capital. According to local tradition Madhavapura in Kathiawar was the place where Krishọa was married to
Rukmini. Krishna met his death at Prabhasa Patan near Verawal gauripura-The name given by the Jainas to the town of Mathura (Uttaradhyayana in
SBE., XLV, p. 112). The Jaina Tirthankara Arishtanemi or Neminátha was born at this place and he died on the Summit of Mount Girnar (Kalpa Satra in the Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XXII, p. 276). But according to the Dhdlasdgara, a Jaina work, Sauripura and Mathura are two different towns. Sauri, who succeeded his father Sara, king of Mathurd, removed his capital to a newly built city named Saurfpuri, while his younger brother
Suvira remained at Mathura. Sauryapura-Same as Sauripura. Sauvira-It has been identified by Cunningham with Eder, a district in the provinces of Guze.
rat which was Badari of the Buddhist period, at the head of the Gulf of Kambay (Anc. Geo. p. 497). Sauvira was the Sophir or Ophir (9.0.) of the Bible (but see Surparaka) and Sovira of the Milinda Parha (SBE., Vol. XXXVI, p. 269) where it is described as a seaport, According to another writer, Sauvira was situated between the Indus and the Jhelum, hence it was called Sindhu-Sauvira (Mbh., Bhishma, ch.9 : Ramayana, Adi, ch. 13). The Satrusijaya Mahatmya places it in Sindhu or Sirdh. It appears from the Agni Purdņa (ch. 200) that the river Devika and from Bhagavata P., (v. 10) the river Ikshumati flowed through Sauvira. Dr. Rhys Davids places Sauvira in his Map to the north of Kathiawar and along the Gulf of Cutch (Buddhist India, Map facing, p 320, and Bhagavata, V, ch. 10; I, ch. 10, VA 36). Alberuni identifies it with Multan and Jahrawar (Alberuni's India, Vol. I, pp. 300, 302; mee also SBE, XIV, p. 148 note). See Devlka. Roruka or Roruva was the capital of Sauvtra (Jataka, Cam. Ed., Vol. III, p. 280 ; Aditta Jataka). But these identifications are doubtful. In the Marland. P. (ch. 57) Sindhu and Sau vira have been placed in the northern part of India, and mentioned along with Gandh&ra, Madra, eto., Rapson says that the two parts of the compound word Sindhu-Sauvita are often used separately as names having nearly the same meaning, and he identifies it with the modern provinces of Sindh (Ancient India, p. 168). Dr. Bhagavanlal Indraji says that Sindhu-Sauvtra like Akardvanti are usually found together. Sindhu is the modern Sindh and Sauvfra may have been part of Upper Sindh, the capital of which was DattAmitri (Early Hist. of Gujarat, p. 36), perhaps from DattAmitra (Demetrius), king of Sauvfra (Mbh., Adi, sh. 141). The identification of
Sauvira by Alberuni with Multan and Jahr war seems to be correct. sokeThe country of Jhajpur, south-east of Ajmir (MoOrindle's Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian, p. 138 note). But the Mahabharata (SebhA, ch. 31) placen it to the south of the Charmanvati (Chambal) and north of Avanti (Ujin), on therefore be
