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[ giaozia Dey identifies it with Puri. 18, 5. Mentioned in the epics, Danti being a synonym for the Varttikas of Katyayana and Hasti ( elephant) later writers the inscriptions of Asoka. Megas
have mistaken it for Hastinapur. thenes refors to Pandoe as the çfasoa IV, I, 4; VIII, 18, 4. only Indian race ruled by women.
The land of the three kingdoms, The country corresponded rouCoda, Cera and Pandya. Dami. ghly to the Madura and Tinnerica of Periplus and Damirike velly districts, Travancore and of Ptolemy. Acc. to Mbh.
parts of Coimbatore and Cochin. Vanaparva, 118, its northern
Its capital was Madura boundary was the Godavari,
(Mathura or Dakshina Mathura). Later, the southern part of the
In the soventh Century A.D. the Peninsula bounded on the north
Pandyas conquered the Cola by the Krishna and the Tunga
and Cera territories, but were bhadra was called as such. It is
subdued by the Colas in the otherwise known as the Tamil
middle of the ninth century. country. It was also called Fri fant gai) V, 4, 6; V, 5, 3. A Coda ( Vikram. Intro. P. 27 mountain in the Malaya ( Mala. Note )
bar) country on which stood are (opeia) X, 10, 9. The most the temple of the 24 Tirthanfamous seat of Buddhist learning.
karas reputed to have been Fa Hian places the hamlet of Nalo built by the lord of Lanka, a at one yojana or seven miles descendant of Ravana, from from the hill of the isclated where the Vidyadharas picked Rock (Giryeka ) and also the up the image of Parsvanatha same distance from new Raja
on their way to Simhala. It is griha. It is now identified with probably identical with the Bargaon or Badgaon (Vata- Podyil hill in the Western Ghats, grama or Vihara-grama ) which
south of the Palaghat gap and lies seven miles to the north west of Tinnevelly (see SIJ.) west of Rajagriha in the district Tata ( 93101) VI, 9, 2. Going to of Patna. Excavations carried the Ganges from Kausambi, Naraon at the place have revealed vahanadatta came to this place. traces of the vast Buddhist So it can not be the Pratisthana monastery.
on the Godavari. It is probably qruse (afos or qíos4 ) IV, 1, 5; VIII, identical with Jhusi opposite to
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