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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
Kampillapura (Kāmpilyapura)1
Kampillapura appears also in other Jaina texts, Buddhist3 and Brāhmaṇical works. The earliest reference to it occurs in the Taittiriya Samhita." It is here Lord Mahāvīra converted Ammaḍa, a Parivrājaka, together with his 700 followers Sramana Dharma. It was the birth place of Vimalanatha, the thirteenth Tirthankara.7
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Ancient Kampillapura lay on the bank of the Ganges and it corresponds to modern Kampil which stands on the same river lying between Budayun and Farrukkhabad in Uttara Pradesh at a distance of twentyeight miles north-east of Fatehgaḍh."
Kummagāma (Kūrmagrāma)10
Kummagama was a town which was visited by Lord Mahāvira along with Gośāla Mankhaliputra during the period of his austerity. It is not yet definitely identified, but it appears to be situated in South Bihar according to the evidence of the BhS.
Kāyandi11
It was a city where lived some Sramano pasakas. It has not yet been identified.
Kollaya (Kollaḍa or Kollaga1)
Kollaya was a small town in the neighbourhood of Nālandā. It is here Lord Mahāvīra is said to have accepted Gośāla
1 BhS, 14, 8, 530.
2 Ovaiya Sutta, 39-40; Avasyaka-Niryukti, 383.
3 Jataka, 11. 214 (Kumbhaka Jāt.).
4 Taittiriya Samhita, VII. 4.19.1; Satapatha Brahmana, xiii, 2.8.3.; Ramayana, Adikanda, Sarga, 33, V. 19; Mahabharata, 1, 138, 73-74; Panini, Kasikavṛtti, 4.2.121.
Taittiriya-Samhita, VII, 4. 19, 1.
• Bh8, 14, 8, 430. 8 C.A.G.I. 413; A.S.R I. 255. 9 Geographical Dictionary, p. 88: N. L. Dey.
7 Avasyaka Niryukti, 383.
10 Bhs, 15, 1, 542, (There seems to be a printing mistake in one latest Vol. of the BhS, where Kundagama appears in place of Kummagama which is found in all the Mss.
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11 Bhs, 10, 4, 404. (It may perhaps be identified with Kākandi Refer to Jain Shilalekha Samgraha, Pt. I, edited by P. C. Nahar-Editor).
12 BhS, 15, 1, 541.
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