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• Update: Labeled Asandivat and Mithila, as per the identifications with modern Assandh and Janakpur, respectively, in H.C. Raychaudhuri (1972) (and in the relevant Wikipedia articles)
• September 2015 Update: Expanded to reflect data on page 4 of Witzel (1997)

Sources used in May 2020 update: mainly Witzel (1990), "Notes on Vedic Dialects" [1], p.42; also with reference to Samuel (2010), The Origins of yoga and Tantra, and Bronkhorst (2007), Greater Magadha. List of other source materials:

• Schwartzberg, J. E. (১৯৯২) Historical Atlas of South Asia, University of Oxford Press OCLC: 929640075.
• Staal, F. (২০০৮) Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insights, নিউ ইয়র্ক সিটি: Penguin, p. 347 ISBN: 9780143099864.
• Witzel, M. (১৯৮৭) "On the localisation of Vedic texts and schools (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 7)" in Pollet, G. , ed. India and the Ancient world. History, Trade and Culture before A.D. 650, Jubilee Volume, লিউভেন: P.H.L. Eggermont OCLC: 1089172707.
• Witzel, M. (১৯৯৯) "Aryan and non-Aryan Names in Vedic India. Data for the linguistic situation, c. 1900- 500 B.C." in J. Bronkhorst; M. Deshpande , ed. Aryans and Non-Non-Aryans, Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology, Harvard Oriental Series, Opera Minora 3, ক্যামব্রিজ OCLC: 671955255.
• Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (১৯৭২) Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, কলকাতা: University of Calcutta OCLC: 247834106.
• Witzel, Michael (১৯৯৭) "Early Sanskritization Origins and Development of the Kuru State The State, the Law, and Administration in Classical India" in The State, the Law, and Administration in Classical India (PDF), Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, 30, বার্লিন: Oldenbourg OCLC: 7354294539.