248 Bejyort of the Arcliceolugical Survey. [No. 4, 



to the north of these mounds was called Bareta. Ayodhya, or Ajudhya, 

 they say, was the capital of Rauia, but the later city was called Bareta. 

 As this name has no similarity either to Sdketa or Visdkha, I can only 

 set it down as another appellation of the old town, for which we have 

 no authority hut tradition. I was disappointed, when at Ajudhya, in 

 not hearing even the most distant allusion to the legend of the tooth- 

 brush tree of Buddha, but the tradition still exists, as I heard of it 

 quite unexpectedly at two different places immediately afterwards, 

 first at Hdtila, distant 15 miles, and next at Gonda, 29 miles to the 

 north of Ajudhya. 



XIX.— HATILA, OR ASOKPUR. 



824. The ancient territory of Ayodhya was divided by the Sarju 

 or GhdgJira River into two great provinces ; that to the north being 

 called Uttara Kosala, and that to the south Banaodha. Each of 

 these was again subdivided into two districts. In Banaodha these 

 are called Pacliham-rdt and Purah-rdt, or the western and eastern 

 districts, with reference to their bearing from Ajudhya ; and in Uttara 

 Kosala they are Gauda (vulgarly Gonda) to the south of the Rapti, 

 and Kosala to the north of the Rapti, or Rawati, as it is universally 

 called in Oudh. Some of these names are found in the Puranas ; thus 

 in the Vayu Purana, Lava, the son of Rama, is said to have reigned 

 in Uttara Kosala ; but in the Matsya, Shiga, and Kurma Purans, 

 Srdvasti is stated to be in Gauda. These apparent discrepancies are 

 satisfactorily explained when we learn that Gauda is only a sub-divi- 

 sion of Uttara Kosala, and that the ruins of Sravasti have actually 

 been discovered in the district of Gauda, which is the Gonda of the 

 maps. The extent of Gauda is also proved by the old name of Bal- 

 rampur on the Rapti, which Avas formerly Ramgarh Gauda. I pre- 

 sume therefore that both the Gauda BraJimans and the Gauda Tagas 

 must have belonged to this district originally, and not to the mediaeval 

 city of Gauda in Bengal. Brahmans of this name are still numerous 

 in Ajudhya and Jahangirabad, on the right bank of the Ghaghra River 

 in Gonda, Pakhapur, and Jaisni of the Gonda district, and in many 

 parts of the neighbouring province of Gorakhpur. 



325. The small village of Hdtila derives its name from the sister's 

 son of Sayid Salar. The old Hindu name was Asokpur, so called 



