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'''Suktimati''' ('''Shuktimati''', '''Sukti'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Rise of the Chedis |publisher=IndiaJourney.com |url=http://indiajourney.com/regionsnstates/west%20India/mp-jabalpur-history.htm |accessdate=2007-10-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518001912/http://www.indiajourney.com/regionsnstates/west%20India/mp-jabalpur-history.htm |archivedate=18 May 2006 }}</ref>) was the capital city of the [[Yaduvanshi]] [[Chedi Kingdom]] in [[India]]. It lay on the banks of the river Shuktimati flowing through Chedi. It was built by a Chedi king known as [[Uparichara vasu]]. In the [[Mahabharata]], it has been quoted that this river gave birth to twins (a boy and a girl) through its association with a mountain called Kolahala. The river then gives the twins to king [[Uparichara Vasu]]. King Vasu makes the boy the commander of his armies and marries the girl, [[Girika]].<ref>{{cite book
| last =Ganguli
| first =Kisari Mohan
| title =The Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa
| publisher =Kessinger Publishing
| year =2004
| pages =154
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=9WF0wHuFDzIC&pg=PA154&d
| isbn =1-4191-7125-9 }}
</ref>

Shuktimati is the [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] form of the name; it is referred to as Sotthivati-nagara in the [[Pali]]-language Buddhist texts.<ref>{{Citation|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory00raycuoft|last=Raychaudhuri|first=Hem Chandra|title=Political history of ancient India, from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty|year=1923|page=66}}</ref>

The location of Suktimati has not been established with certainty. Historian [[Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri]] and [[F. E. Pargiter]] believed that it was in the vicinity of [[Banda, Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{Citation|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory00raycuoft|last=Raychaudhuri|first=Hem Chandra|title=Political history of ancient India, from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty|year=1923|page=66}}</ref> Archaeologist [[Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti]] has proposed that Suktimati can be identified as the ruins of a large [[Northern Black Polished Ware|early historical]] city, at a place with the modern-day name [[Rewa, Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{Citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8qvY8pxVxcwC|last=Chakrabarti|first=Dilip Kumar|chapter=Mahajanapada States of Early Historic India|title=A Comparative Study of Thirty City-state Cultures: An Investigation|year=2000|editor-last=Hansen|editor-first=Mogens Herman|page=387}}</ref>

==References==
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