Raaladesha and more

[mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU]

Dear colleagues,

I agree that raala must be raaDha.
The 11th c. play Prabodhacandrodaya
unambiguously places raaDhadeza in gauDa
(act 2, verse 7),
so I do not think that the location in Bengal
should be in question. 

Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Directeur d'études
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris