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to the north of these mounds was called Bareta. Ayodhya, or Ajudhya, 
they say, was the capital of Rama, 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 but 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 Hatila, distant 15 miles, and next at Gonda, 29 miles to the 
north of Ajudhya. 
XIX.—HATILA, OR ASOKPUR. 
324. The ancient territory of Ayodhya was divided by the Sarju 
or Ghdghra River into two great provinces; that to the north being 
called Uttara Kosala, and that to the south Banaodha. Hach of 
these was again subdivided into two districts. In Banaodha these 
are called Pachham-rdt and Purab-rdét, 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, Singa, 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 was formerly Ramyarh Gauda. I pre- — 
sume therefore that both the Gauda Brahmans and the Gauda Tagas 
must have belonged to this district originally, and not to the medieval 
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 


