Life in Ancient India as Depicted in Jain Canons

SR No.: 011077
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdishchandra Jain
Publisher: New Book Company
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 429
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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GEOGRAPHICAL LEXICON
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It is identical with the country about the modern districts of Bhagalpur and Monghyr.45
Anjana-a mountain
This mountain is referred to in the Avasyaka Curni 16
Añjana Pavvaya is one of the six peaks of the Himalaya from which rose the five great rivers and round which were the seven lakes.47 It is identified with the Suleiman range in the Punjab. 48
Antaranja or Antaranji-a city
40
Antarañjiya is mentioned in the Thananga' Antai anjiyā 15 mentioned as a sahi of the Jain samanas in the Kalpasutra.50
It may be identified with Atranji-khera situated on the right bank of the Kali nadi, four miles to the south of Karsana and cight miles to the north of Etah.51
Aojjha, Avajjha or Ujha2-a uty
Aojjha was the capital of Kosala which is included among the twenty five and a half Aryan countries
Aojjha is described as the birthplace of the second and fourteenth Tirthankaras 53 (See also Ikkhagabhumi; Kosalā, Saketa, Vinita, Visāhā).
During the Buddhist period, Ayojjha on the Sarayu was the capital of Daksina Kosala, while that of Uttara Kosala was Savatthi on the Rapti. The capital cities of Kosala were Savatthi and Saketa Ayodhya is about four miles from Fyzabad and phonetically corresponds to modern Oudh.54
Apāpā, Majjhimā Pāvā or Pără—a city
It is said that Mahavira ti avelled here from Chamani and proceeded to Jambhiyagama where he attained kevalahood at the bank of the river Ujjuväliya
48 G. D., p 7.
48 p. 516
41 Malalasekara, op cit, under "Anjana."
48 G. D., p. 8
49 7.587. Also A.a cũ, p. 121
50 8, p 231.
61 C. A. G I, p 418f
1 According to the Vidhatirthakalpa (p 24), Aujjha, Avajjha, Kosala, Viniyā, Sākeya, Ikkhagubhumi, Ramapuii and Kosala are other names of Ayodhya.
SB Ava. Nir, 382, 323
G. E. B, pp 5, 231
54 See Supra, p 261.