A country, converted by the Thera Mahádeva, who preached there the Devadúta Sutta (Mhv.xii.4, 29; Dpv. viii.5; Sp.i.63).
The country is generally regarded as the modern Mysore. v.l. Mahimsamandala.
But see J. R.A.S.1910, 429ff., where the author says that Máhissati was its capital and that it was an island in the Narbadá River; see also Mhv.Trs.84, n.5.