Additions and corrections to our "literary" map of the Buddha's India

[sujato]

Thanks to Jonas’ awesome work, we have published a lovely map of the Buddha’s India, which in addition to being pretty, is detailed and accurate. However there is always room to improve, so I’d like to record corrections here in case we ever decide to make any changes.

Bhaggā

The land of the Bhaggas is situated between the Yamuna and Ganges. It is mentioned a few times in the suttas. There should be room to put them on the map. Probably best to not add their capital Sumsumaragiri, which is unidentified.

Bhagga

[Vaddha]

Bhante, did you get a chance to assess some of these ideas in this thread on the geography of the Buddha’s India and location placement?

Ancient Greek Monks & the Writing of the Pali Canon: Recent Research by Ajahn Sona

Sorry for the long response, there is a huge amount of information that one needs to digest to make sense of it all. So let me try to explain it to some extent. Madhyadeśa or Madhyama-deśa (Pāli: majjhima-deśa) is not Madhya-pradeśa. Madhya-pradeśa is the modern Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Rājagṛha has not always been associated with modern-day Rajgir - Rājgir is a relatively modern name and it has been associated with Rājagṛha only since Alexander Cunningham’s identification of EBT-sites…

[christie]

I the hand drawn map!!!

Reminds me of Tolkien’s maps in The Lord of the Rings and in the Hobbit.

Here lie dragons!