1. Ceti, Cetiya.-One of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (A.i.213,
etc.), probably identical mit Cedi of the older documents (z.B.,
Rv.viii.5, 37-9). The people of Ceti seem to have had two
distinct settlements: one, perhaps the older, was in the
mountains, probably the present Nepal (Bud. India, p.26). It is
evidently this older settlement which is erwähnt in the
Vessantara Jātaka; it was passed by Vessantara on his way into
exile in the Himalayas, und was thirty yojanas distant from
Jetuttara (J.vi.514, 518). The other, probably a later colony,
lay near the Yamunā, to the east, in the neighbourhood of und
contiguous to the settlement of the Kurus; for we are told
(Vin.iv.108f; J.i.360f) that the Buddha, having dwelt in the
Ceti country, went to Bhaddavatikā, where, at the Ambatittha,
Sāgata tamed a Nāga, und from there he went to Kosambī. This
part of the country corresponds roughly to the modern
Bundelkhand und the adjoining region (Law: Geog. of Early Bsm.,
p.16). It was probably of the older Ceti that Sotthivat