Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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But there was a country named Malaya located in the south, having the mountain Malaya lying there.' It is identified with the country which corresponds to the present Malabar region with Travancore-Cochin.2
Malavaka
Malavaka is recorded in other Jaina texts as one of the sixteen great states with its earlier and later capitals at Avanti or Ujjayini and Dharanagara at the time of king Bhoja. Malavaka may be identified with Avanti of the Buddhist Anguttara Nikaya.
This state also finds mention in several epigraphic records' and in the itinerary of Hiuen Tsang as Mo-la-paR which corresponds to modern Malwa.
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Attha (Accha)
Attha appears also in other Jaina texts as one of the great sixteen states with its capital at Varana or Varuna. It may be identified with the place centring about Bulandshahr in the Uttara-Pradesh.10
Vattha (Vaccha=Vatsa)
Vattha (Vatsa) finds mention in other Jaina texts," Buddhist1*
1 Brhatkathakośa. 75. 1.
2 Geographical Dictionary, N. L. Dey. p. 122. Vide, L. A. I. p. 310.
8 Pannavana, 37; Nisitha Cürni, 16. p. 110; Brṛhatkalpa Bhasyavritti. 47.
4 Geographical Dictionary, p. 122.
Vide, Life in Ancient India, p. 310; Anguttara Nikaya, P. T. S. 1. 213.
Vide, Political History of Ancient India p. 96; 4th ed. Dr. H. C. Ray Chaudhury.
Sagartala (Gowalior Prasasti) Inscription of Pratihāra king, Bhoja, Paithana plate of the Rastrakuta king, Govinda III; Madhuvana and Banskhera Inscriptions of Harsa-Varddhana. 8 Watters on Yuan Chwang II. pp 242.
9 Pannavana Sutia, p. 37. 55a.
10 Vide, Life in Ancient India, p. 264.
11 Pannavana, 1. 37; Uvasagadasão, 11, Dr. Hoernle Vol. 1 Appendix 1. p. 7. Here Vaccha is referred to as people.
12 Anguttara Nikaya, P. T. S. 1. 213 (Here Vamsa is mentioned in stead of Vaccha or Vatsa).