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=Kosala, 1908=

(from kushala, ' happy '). — Two tracts of this name are
known in Hindu literature. That north of the Vindhyas corresponded
roughly to Oudh. In the Ramayana it is the country of Dasaratha
and Rama, with its capital at Ajodhya, and it then extended to the
Ganges. It was part of the holy land of Buddhism, and in Buddhist
literature kings of Kosala ruled also over Kapilavastu. Sravasti, the
site of which is disputed, was the capital of Uttara Kosala, the northern
portion, over which Lava, son of Rama, ruled after his father's death.
Southern or Great Kosala (Dakshina or Maha. Kosala), which fell to
Kusa, the other son of Rama, lay south of the Vindhyas. In the
seventh century Hiuen Tsiang describes it as bounded by Ujjain on
the north, Maharashtra on the west, Orissa on the east, and Andhra
and Kalinga on the south. It thus lay in ChhattTsgarh about the upper
valley of the Mahanadi and its tributaries, from Amarkantak on the
north to Ranker on the south, and may at times have extended west
into Mandla and Balaghat Districts, and cast into Sambalpur. From
about the year 1000 the tract was absorbed in a new kingdom called
chedi (eastern).
[For Northern Kosala, see Lassen, Ind. Alt., vol. i, p. 129, and
authorities quoted there ; Rhys Davids's Buddhist India, passim. For
Southern Kosala, see Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports,
vol. xvii, p. 68, and map ; and Coins of Mediaeval India, p. 73.]

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THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''

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