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76 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
generally mentioned with Sūrasena is to be located to the south or south-west of Indapatta and to the south of Sūrasena. Its capital was Virāțanagara (modern Bairāt) where a copy of Asoka's Minor Rock Edict was engraved. It may be supposed to have comprised the State of Jaipur and included the whole of the State of Alwar with a portion of Bharatpur.1 Surattha was another important country in Aparānta which was watered by a river called Sātodikā. Its capital was Girinagara (modern Girnar in Kathiawad) containing as it does a whole set of Asoka's Rock Edicts. The Sunā paranta or Aparānta is identified by the late Sir R. G. Bhandarkar with the modern Konkan. Its capital was Suppāraka, a highly important seaport on the Arabian sea, modern Sopārā in the distriot of Thänā near Bombay. The Bharukaccha (Sk. Bhrgukaccha) was another very important sea-port town on the Arabian Sea which is identified with the modern Broach in Kathiawad and identical with the Barygaza of Ptolemy and the Periplus.8 Bhoja, the territory of the Bhojaputtas, sixteen in number, may be identified with the modern Berar. The town of Satakaņņikā which is mentioned as the south-western boundary of the Buddhist Mid-land
1, "Law, Geography, 19, 59, 56-57. * Samyutta, i, n. 6lf.; Jätaka, i, p. 45; Law, op. cit., p. 62.
