Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

For the concetion of the shape of India we have however to turn to the Mangovinda Suttanta of the Digha Nikaya a Pali text and to the itnerary of Yuan Chwang the celebrated Chinese traveller.' Nor have we any such conception of the world and the place India occupies in the system in the same way as we have in the Brahmanical conception contained in the Puranas and the epics. [...] so 'ntah tatah parena pratyantah I The boundaries of the MadhyadeSa defined here may be decribed as having extended in the east to the city of Punclrvardhanal to the east of which was the Punciakaksa mountain in the south to the city of Saravati (Salalavati of the Mahavagga ) on the river of the same name in the west to the twin Brahmana villages of SthUne and Upasthilna and in the north [...] Geographical Data from Seinskro Buddhist Literature 7 Majjhimadesa of the Pali text may be described as having extened in the east to the town of Kajangala in the south-east to the river Salalavati in the south to the town of Satakannika in the west to the Brahmana district of Thfina and in the north to the Usiradhaja mountain. [...] It may be described as having extended in the east as far as the city of Pundravardhana in the south to the city of Saravati on the river of the same name in the west to the twin brahmin villages of Sthana and Upasthana and in the north to the IThiragiri mountain. [...] They were the Venuvana on the side of the Kalandakanivapa the Naradagrama the Kukkutaramavihara the Grdhraktita hill the Yastivana the Uruvilvagrdma the Prabhasavana on the Grdhrakiita hill the Kolitagrama etc.