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fies Mithilā with Janakapura, a small town within the Nepal border, north of which the Mozaffarpur and Darbhanga districts meet'.1
The high road connecting Rājagaha with Kapilavatthu passed through such places in the Vajji territory as Kotigāma on the left bank of the Ganges, Nädikā, Vesali, Hatthigāma, Ambagāma and Jambugāma. There was a natural forest called Mahāvana in the neighbourhood of Vesāli. Mithilā, the capital of Videha, had at each of its four gates a market town of the Yayamajjhaka shape.8
Ukkācelā (but not Ukkāvelā, met with as a variant) was a Vajjian town on the left bank of the Ganges.
Malla country: The kingdom or country of the Mallas, stated to be nine in the Jaina canonical texts, comprised in theory nine territories, one of each of the confederate clans. But the Pali canonical texts bring into prominence the territories of just two of them, one with its headquarters at Kusīnārā (Kusinagara) and other with Pāvā as its chief town. The first abutted, on the Säkya territory and the second on the Vajji. Bhoganagara was a Malla
1 Law, Geography of Early Buddhism, pp. 7, 30, ?" % Sumangalavildaini, 1, 309. 8 Jätaka, vi, p. 380. 4 Magghima, i, p. 226; Samyutta, iv, p. 261f.; Papañcasüdant, Sinhalese ed., 1, p. 447.
6 Kalpasutra, 8128; Nirayāvali Sūtra.
