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INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN DARLY TEXTS
Magadha and Kajangala in the east and southeast. The Buddhist Mid-land may be shown to lave constituted the upper Gangetic valley between the Himalayas in the north and the Vindhya (Pali Viñjha) range in the south. Within this area the Pali texts include a few other small tracts, such as the Rāmagäma of the Koliyas, the Pipphaliyana of the Moriyas, the Allakappa (Adrakalpa) of the Bulis, Vethadīpa the native land of the Brahmin Doņa, the realm of Bhaggas, and the Kesaputta of tho Kālāmas. According to the Mahāgovinda Suttanta, Mabāgovinda, the Brahmin chaplain to king Reņu, divided his empire into sovon separate kingdoms with their respective capitals as named below:
1. Kalinga, capital Dantapura, 2. Assaka, capital Potana. 3. Avanti, capital Māhissati.
Sovira, capital Roruka. ,5. Videha, capital Mithila, 6. Anga, capital Campā. 7. Kāsi, capital Bārāṇasī.
Of these, the last three only were included in the Majjhimadosa.
Kururattha: The Kuru kingdom which extended from the Sarasvati to the Ganges
1 Bigha, ii, p. 184. 3 Digha,"li, p. 920f.
2 Anguttara, i, p. 188.
