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not appear to be certain that the two names mean one and the same 
city; though it is of course very possible that the name derived from 
king Virata may have superseded the older name. Lassen places Upa- 
plavya on the site of the modern Amballa (Ind. Alt., Map). 
We may now return to Cedi. King Vasu, while oat hunting one 
day, sent (it is fabled) a message home to his queen by a hawk, and 
the bird flew over the Jumna on its way to her (Adi-p., lxiii. 2373- 
87). Hence it appears Cedi must have bordered on that river; the king 
could hardly go hunting in forest territory far from his realm; and 
it may even be inferred perhaps that the business entrusted to the 
bird implies that the king could not have been at a great distance from 
his capital. This fable, absurd as it is, yet must have a real and true 
ingredient of topography in it, for Satya-vatl dwelt on the banks of 
the Jumna and gave birth to Vyasa on an island in that river (Ibid., 
2396-2426), and the story which explains the lineage and honour of 
queen Satya-vatl and the great Sage in a miraculous manner, yet 
harmoniously with ancient ideas, would not have given satisfaction 
unless it agreed with the well-known conditions of the country. 
Cedi is said to be one of the countries around the Kurus when 
the Pandavas debated where they should spend the last year of their 
exile (Virata-p., i. 11-12) ; and Yudhisthira names the Cedis with the 
Ka^is, Pailcalas, and Matsyas as the nearest nations with whose friendly 
intervention he chose five villages for his kingdom of Indra-prastha 
(Udyoga-p., lxxi. 2594-5). And, as has been mentioned already, Cedi 
touched Matsya. It is said to be in the eastern region when Bhima 
went forth on his expedition to conquer the east (Sabha-p., xxviii. 
1069-74) ; but it was in the southern portion of that region, for it is 
connected with the Dat^arnas (who dwelt on the modern river Dasan 
in Bundelkhand) and with the Pulindas (who appear to have dwelt 
south of the Da9armis) 
All these conditions can only be satisfied by placing Cedi along 
the south bank of the Jumna from the R. Chambal on the north-west 
about as far as Karwi (which is north-east of Citra-kuta) on the south¬ 
east ; and its limits southward would have been the plateau of Malwa 
and the hills of Bundelkhand. Cedi is placed in the south in the 
story of Arjuna’s following the sacrificial horse over India (A 9 va-medh.- 
p., lxxxiii. 2466-9), and the position now proposed will satisfy this 
passage also. The Yakrllomas, who have been mentioned above in 
connexion with Matsya, were probably a tribe dwelling along the north 
of the Cedi territory, for, beyond that they are named in Bhlsma-p., 
ix. 353, they are hardly to be found alluded to elsewhere. 
The capital of Cedi is said in the Maha-bharata to be fuikti-matl 
