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the Mahābhārata,1 is mentioned as its capital. Sahajäti 2 finds mention as a township of Ceti, which probably stood on the right bank of the Yamunā. Salañcanika: appears to have been another township, but according to Dr. Malalasekera, 4 the name is evidently a wrong reading of Sahajāti. There was a Deer Park in the village of Pācinavamsa, which, as its name implies, lay to the east of Vatsa, next to the village of Balakaloņakāra on the side of the Vatsa kingdom. The Vessantara Játaka mentions ono Cetaraţtha, situated 30 yojanas from the Jetuttara-nagara, through which lay a way to thc Himalayau region. This latter Ceti country is sometimes identificd with the territory covered by the kingdom of Nepal.
Kāsi: This is one of the most ancient kingdoms in Northern India, with Bārāṇasī (modern Benares) as its capital, twelve yojanas in extent. The city stood, as it now does, on the left bank of the Ganges, and it was known by different names in different ages: Surundhana, Sudassana, Brahmavaddhana, Pupphavati, Ramma and Molini.In Pali texts it is predicted
3 Samyutta, v, p. 436f.
1 Mahabharata, iü, 22260; xiv, 83.2. 2 Anguttara, iii, p. 356. 4 Malalasekera, op. cit., ii, p. 1080. 6 Anguttara, iv, p. 228f. & Jätaka, vi, p. 614f. ? Ibid., vi, p. 160. 8 Ibid., iv, pp. 16, 119.
