Prayaga

Prayaga is named in the book’s explanatory notes as a geographical landmark used to orient the location of Kauśāmbī. In the evidence available here, it serves as a point of reference rather than as the scene of a narrated event.

Geographical Reference

An appended note places Kauśāmbī 500 lis southwest of Prayaga, on the south bank of the Yamuna River. The distance and riverbank give the reference a practical geographic function: they situate a named city in relation to Prayaga and a major waterway.

Place in the Text

Prayaga’s documented role here belongs to the explanatory apparatus, not to a developed episode in the poem. The supplied material does not describe events occurring at Prayaga or give further detail about its inhabitants, buildings, or religious associations; its significance in this evidence is the precise orientation it provides for Kauśāmbī.