Geography of Early Buddhism
A comprehensive list and review of geographical sites mentioned in early Buddhist texts, and in selected later works.
A comprehensive list and review of geographical sites mentioned in early Buddhist texts, and in selected later works.
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Middle Country - 45<br />
and that the Licchavis too had decorated the road from the Ganges<br />
to Vesālī.<br />
In the Divyāvadāna (p. 55) we find the Buddha saying to the<br />
Bhikkhus that in order to go to Rājagaha from Sāvatthī one should<br />
cross the Ganges by boats kept either by King Ajātasattu or by the<br />
Licchavis <strong>of</strong> Vesālī.<br />
These statements from various sources show that the Ganges<br />
formed the boundary between the Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Magadha and the<br />
republican country <strong>of</strong> the Licchavis, and that both the Magadhas<br />
and the Licchavis had equal rights over the river Ganges.<br />
In the Campeyya Jātaka (Jāt., IV, p. 4–54) we find that the river<br />
Campā flowed between Aṅga and Magadha forming the boundary<br />
between the two kingdoms.<br />
The two kingdoms <strong>of</strong> Aṅga and Magadha were engaged in battles<br />
from time to time (Jāt., IV, pp. 454–55). In a Jātaka story (Jāt., V,<br />
pp. 315 foll.) it is stated that once the King <strong>of</strong> Benares conquered<br />
both Aṅga and Magadha.<br />
In another Jātaka story (Jāt., VI, p. 272) it is said that the Magadha<br />
kingdom once came under the suzerainty <strong>of</strong> Aṅga. The Mahāvagga<br />
(S.B.E., XVII, p. I) <strong>of</strong>fers a reasonable evidence to prove that the
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