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KINGS AND PEOPLES
in the Deccan. The Rāmāyaṇa speaks of a matrimonial alliance between the royal houses of Kosala and Kekaya in Uttarapatha. We learn from Jain sources that one half of the Kekaya kingdom was Aryan and the Kekaya city was known as Seyaviya.1
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1 Indian Antiquary, 1891, p. 375.
2 Jätaka, iv, 401; v, 210; vi, 419.
s Ibid., vi, p. 480.
4 Ibid., vi, p. 514,
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The Sivis are mentioned in the Jātakas as another ancient people of India who settled down in Uttarapatha. There is a discrepancy between Sivi and Vessantara Jātakas, as regards the name of the capital of their kingdom," the former calling it Aritthapura 2 and the latter Jetuttara. The fact seems to be that the two Jātakas speak of two different kingdoms, one with its capital at Aritthapura and the other with Jetuttara as its chief town. The second territory is placed to the south of the Cetaraṭṭha at a distance of thirty yojanas. Just to the north of the city of Jetuttara stood a mountain called Suvannagiritala. Between this mountain in the south and the mountain, Arañjaragiri, in the north, flowed a river by the name of Kontimara. The way from Jetuttara to the Varka mountain in, the Himavanta lay through the Cetaraṭṭha across the river Kontimara. The Nimi Jātaka mentions a king named Usinara
