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TULSI PRAJÑA, Oct.-Dec., 1992 so for identified him with Udayi. Differences regarding founder and the date of founding make it imperative to hold PALIBOTHRA different from Pațaliputra.
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If PALIBOTHRA is identified with PATALIPUTRA, we would have hard time explaining the following statement of Pliny: "The river Jomanes flows through the PALIBOTHRI into the GANGES between the towns METHORA and CARISOBORA" 34 We have seen earlier that PALIBOTHRI means the land where PALIBOTHRA was situated, while R. C. MAJUMDAR reads as above, Dr. B. C. LAW substitutes 'CRISOBARO' for 'CARISOBORA'. It is identified variously by the scholars as Krsnapura in AGRA (LASSEN), KESAVAPURA MUHALLA of MATHURA (CUNNINGHAM) and GOKUL (S. N. MAJUMDAR) 35 ARRIAN names two big cities of the SURSENOI as METHORA and CLEISOBORA, which shows that 'CARISOBARA' was also known as CLEISOBORA.86 Controversy regarding CARISOBORA does not stand in our way of approaching the truth because SOMANES and METHORA are identified indisputably with the YAMUNA and METHORA respectively. Identifying PALIBOTHRA with PĀȚALIPUTRA leads to the question Since when does the YAMUNA flow through Magadha and where does she join she river GANGA in or beyond Magadha ?
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Pliny writes in the same vein : "From thence (i e. PEUCOLAITIS) to the river Indus and the city of Taxila, 60; from thence to the famous river HYPASPES, 120; from thence to the HYPASIS, a river no less famous, 290 miles and 390 paces. This last was the extreme limit of the expedition of Alexander, through whieh he crossed the river and dedicated certain altars on the opposite side. The dispatches written by order of that king full agree with the distances above stated. The remaining distances beyond the above point were ascertained on the expedition of SELEUCUS NIKATOR-168 miles to the HESIDRUS, and to the river JOMANES as many (some copies add 5 miles); from thence to the GANGES 112 miles, 119 miles to RHODOPHA (Others give 325 miles for this distance). To the town KALINIPAXA 167-500 (others give 62) miles. Thence to the confluence of the JOMANES and GANGES 625 miles (many add 13 miles), and to the town PALIMBOTHRA 425" 37 It is not difficult to see whether PALIMBOTHRA would lie to the west Prayaga or in Magadha if the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna were 625 miles from a place in the west and PALIMBOTHRA 425 miles only.
PALIBOTHRA (or PALIMBOTHRA) was situated in the PRACHYA JANAPADA. The word 'PRACHYA' is relative, Even
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