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	Uttarapatha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The eastern terminus of the Uttarapatha was Tamraliptika or Tamluk located at the mouth of Ganges in west Bengal.
		Uttarapatha was famous from very early times for its fine breed of horses and the horse-dealers.
		Corresponding to Uttarapatha, the Dakshinapatha was the name of southern high road which originated from Rajagriha in Magadha, followed through Ujjaini and Narmada valley to Pratisthana (Paithan) in the Mahajanapada of Ashmaka (in modern Maharashtra), onwards to the western coast of India and running in the southern direction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uttarapatha (1293 words)

	Ancient India and Central Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Puranic Bhuvanakosha attests that the boundaries of Bharata varsa extended in the Uttarapatha as far as the Vamkshu or Oxus in Central Asia.
		The Puranic Bhuvanakosha attests that Bahlika or Bactria was the northern-most Puranic Janapada of ancient India and was located in Udichya or Uttarapatha division of Indian sub-continent.
		The Uttarapatha or northern division of Jambudvipa comprised very vast area of Central Asia, as far as the Urals and the Caspian Sea to the Yenisei and from Turkistan and Tien Shan ranges to as far as the Arctic (Dr S. Ali).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_India_and_Central_Asia (3921 words)

	Saka - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Vartika of the Katayana informs us that the kings of the Shakas and the Yavanas, like those of the Kambojas, may also be addressed by their respective tribal names.
		The Mahabharata also associates the Shakas with the Yavanas, Gandharas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, Tusharas, Sabaras, Barbaras etc and addresses them all as the Barbaric tribes of Uttarapatha.
		In another verse, the epic groups the Shakas and Kambojas and Khashas and addresses them as the tribes from Udichya i.e north division (5/169/20).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/a/k/Saka.html (1922 words)

	Ancient Kamboj Rashtra - 1 - KambojSociety.com
		As Sakas, Yavanas etc are the well known tribes of the Uttarapatha, their Associates, the Kambojas are also qualify to have been their Uttarapathian neighbors.
		Kambojas, Sakas etc have also been portrayed as the tribes of Uttarapatha in Mudrarakasha drama of Buddist texts and they are shown to have jointly formed core of the Chander Gupta Maurya's composite army of Uttarapathian warriors which had decisively defeated the Magadha dynasty of Nandas/Nandins.
		The republican Asvakyan (Ashvak/Ashmak) and Asvayana (Asapas) Kambojas of the Puranic literature and Panini's Ashta-dhyai belong to this class.
	www.kambojsociety.com /ancient.asp (3137 words)

	Ancient Kamboj Rashtra - 2 - KambojSociety.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It simply places it in the Uttarapatha, and clearly distinguishes it from the land of the Tukharas, apparantly lying further to the north).
		Thus we see that according to Dr Mukerjee, roughly the Kabul valley, Begram, Lamghan valley, Kunar valley, Kohistan, Kaffirstan, Swat valley, Hazara and Abhisara (SE Kashmir) were included in the Kamboja Mahajanapada.(roughly the land of the Paropanisadaen satrapy of the Greeks).
		It is generally associated with Gandhara in ancient literature and in the Edicts of Ashoka.
	www.kambojsociety.com /ancient_2.asp (1760 words)

	Anchor Stone International - Buddhism in ancient Israel and Arabia
		The availability of such an international trunk-route that served as quick passage for information also, caused the spread of the news of the birth of such a Great Being, a Supreme Buddha beyond the farthest corners of the east and the west.
		That is 'kube' or 'tube' (from Stupa or thupa) used in every Buddhist country for the Buddhist relic mound (stupa, Thuap, tope, tepe) from Far-East to Central Asia and South Asia, e.g.
		In the present research study I have ventured to trace historical evidence based on literary and archaeological data to substantiate further our original hypothesis, that is, Buddhism was introduced to Middle-East and West-Asia (Arabia-Persia-Syria-Palestine-Israel, the Sinai Arabah in ancient documents, etc.) during the very lifetime of the Buddha.
	www.anchorstone.com /content/view/120/0 (15132 words)

	Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bhagvati and the omission of all countries from Uttarapatha clearly shows that the Bhagvati list is of later origin and
		was located on the grand northern high road (Uttarapatha) and was a centre of international commercial activities.
		last two belong to Uttarapatha or the north-west division of Jambudvipa.
	hindmahasagar.com /history.html (3232 words)

	The Sakas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ujjayini in central India was the center of the Western Ksatrapas from the second to early fourth centuries, until the Gupta ruler Candragupta II defeated the "Sakas" between ca.
		Sakas in control of major commercial centers along the "Northern Route" (Uttarapatha) and "Southern Route" (Dakshinapatha) encouraged the development of trade networks and supported religious institutions.
		Inscriptions that record the establishment of Buddhist relics and donations to monasteries in Gandhara, Taxila, Mathura, and western South Asia show that Sakas, Parthians, and other Iranians were active lay supporters of the Buddhist community.
	www.pakhtun.com /theSakas.htm (1617 words)

	Jataka
		All petas know by what evil deed they had carried out immediately before their current life that caused their woe and they can even give a lesson or two to humans.
		Take for example the story of a group of traders from Savatthi who had done their business at Uttarapatha and were returning to their city; they camped a night at a place where a hideous peta was around.
		When asked who he was, the peta related by what specific deeds he had done that made him thus.
	www.geocities.com /ekchew.geo/tirokudda.htm (2814 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The route from Taxila to Pataliputra, along the base of the Himalayas and hugging the shore of the Ganga, and on to the port of Tamralipi near today's Kolkata in Bengal, was known as the Uttarapatha.
		Goods and life flowed from Taxila to Magadh and Rajgir to the port in Bengal from where the ships salled, for profit and faith, to Indonesia and the Islands of the Pacific.
		The Uttarapatha gave the land of the Gangetic belt the name Uttara Pradesh.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01apr06/edit.htm (5332 words)

	Ku.n.dakakucchisindhava Jaataka (J.254)
		A householder was lodging in a poor woman’s house on the road from Benares to Uttarapatha.
		During his stay there, his thoroughbred mare foaled, and the foal was given to the poor woman as part of the payment for lodging.
		See also Kundakasindhavapotaka Jataka (J.109) which is related in reference to the Buddha being allotted to receive the rice-husk cakes of a slave woman (DhA.iii.325ff.)
	members.tripod.com /~suttanta/khuddhaka/jaataka/j254.html (203 words)

	Buddhism and the Trade Routes
		It is known that by the fifth or sixth century B.C.E., Indian traders were regularly making their way to the Kathmandu Valley, which lies across one of the main pathways linking India with Tibet and the ancient east-west trade routes.
		The southern terminus of this route connects with two of the great Indian trade arteries, the Uttarapatha, which linked India with the Near East, and the Dakshinapatha, which flowed southward.
		Nepal became a gateway from China and the central Asian cities to the great monastic centers of India.
	www.asiasocietymuseum.com /buddhist_trade/himalaya_nepal.html (455 words)

	Caves in Orissa,Ancient Caves in Orissa,Heritage Caves in Orissa
		A 'Yavana' (Indo-Greek) king is said to have fled to Mathura out of fear.
		In his eleventh year he destroyed the city of 'Pithuda' (Masulipatam region) and next year threatened the rulers of 'Uttarapatha' (north India) and defeated King 'Bahasatimita' of Magadha (south Bihar).
		He brought back with him booty from Ariga (east Bihar) and Magadha, including a Jain-cult object (Kalinga-fina), which had been taken away long ago by 'Nanda', the ruler of Magadha.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /orissa/caves (1165 words)

	Ancient India - Economy and Polity in Ancient India 4th c. B.C. - free Suite101.com course
		Due to this effort ultimately Ajatasatru obtained success against Licchavi which became part of Magadha empire.
		This region controlled the northern trade route called uttarapatha, while the southerly route called dakshinapatha was under the control of Magadha.
		Due to these conquests, Magadha was able to manage economic resources like fertile river valleys and iron ore mines which provided the necessary supply of materials for the production of different goods.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/18730/2158/1?l=0 (531 words)

	Punjabi.net discussions chat forums
		In Baudhyana Dharamasutra (1/1/2/4), Acharya Baudhyana of Aryavarta has listed certain pofessions practiced by the people of Uttarapathas (Northerners) which according to him were the VERY REASON for their degradation and fall from the Kshatryahood.
		Obviously, the route refered to here is the great royal road called Uttarapatha by Panini in his Ashtadhyai, which route started from Tamaralipti [eastern india] through Pataliputa and went all the way to Balkh and then to Kamboj and then onwards connected to well known Silk route of China and another to western world.
		The land-route followed was the well known Uttarapatha route from Balkh/Taxila to Tamarlipti and then to Manipur, Upper Burma and Szechwan/Yunnan to Tongkin etc. There was also a sea-route directly from Tamarlipti across the Bay of Bengal to Malay and then to Indo-China.
	punjabi.net /talk/messages/1/58878.html?1090130179 (13765 words)

	SASIGUPTA AND THE POISONING OF ALEXANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chandragupta is described as the king of Patna by Jonesian historians who have no truck with archaeology.
		Curiously the Satrap of the Taksashila area under Alexander was another Gupta whose history has been treated in the most perfunctory manner
		"To me Candragupta was a man of the Uttarapatha or Gandhara if not exactly of Taksashila.
	www.1stmuse.com /frames/sasigupta.html (4331 words)

	Encyclopedia of Pakistan - Ghandara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Buddhist texts like Anguttara Nikaya refer to sixteen great nations (solas Mahajanapadas) which flourished in Indian sub-continent during Buddha's time, only two of which viz.
		the Gandhara and the Kamboja were located in the Uttarapatha or the north-western division.
		Gandhāra is also thought to be the location of the mystical Lake Dhanakosha, birthplace of Padmasambhava, founder of Tibetan Buddhism.
	pakpedia.org /content/blogcategory/88888907/88888947 (1531 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Trade and Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An impression of this can be seen in the epigraphic account of the gift of countless cavalry to the Palas by rulers from the northern quarter (udichinananeka-narapati-prabhritkrta-prameyahayavahini).
		Though it is stereotypical and eulogistic in nature, the account suggests that the Palas perceived the northern quarter (Udichi or Uttarapatha) as the principal supply zone of war-horses for their cavalry.
		This suggestion gains ground in the light of the annual horse-fair (ghotakayatra) at Prthudaka (modern Pehoa in Haryana), figuring in an inscription of 848 AD.
	banglapedia.org /HT/T_0204.HTM (8767 words)

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		The Mahasanghikas can, therefore, be said to be the precursors of the Mahayana movement, through which Buddhism came to attract more people than it would otherwise have done.
		The commentary on the Katha-vatthu mentions a few more schools, namely the Rajagirika, the Siddhatthaka, the Pubbaseliya, the Aparaseliya, the Vajiriya, the Uttarapatha, the Vetulya and the Hetuvadins.
		The first four are known by the general name of Andhakas.
	www.quangduc.com /English/history/032500years06.html (11144 words)

	kekaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		India as Known to Panini, p 54, Dr V. Aggarwala.
		The Kekayas are said to have occupied the land now comprised by three districts of Jhelum, Shahpur and Gujerat
		The 10th century CE Kavyamimamsa of Pandit Rajashekhara furnishes a list of the extant tribes of his times which also includes the Kekayas along with the Shakas, Tusharas, Vokanas, Hunas, Kambojas, Vahlikas, Vahlavas, Limpakas, Tangana, Turukshas etc referring to them all as the tribes of Uttarapatha or north division
	www.tropicalbeachtravel.com /wiki/?title=Kekaya (1256 words)

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