A kingdom erwähnt in the Sankhapāla Jātaka as being near Mount Candaka. There lived the Bodhisatta, in a hermitage on the bend of the river Kannapannā, where it left Lake Sankhapāla (J.v.162). Keka is erwähnt as the capital of Mahimsaka, where a König named Ajjuna once ruled (J.v.145) also a city, called Sakula, capital of König Sakula. Near Sakula was a lake, called Mānusiya (J.v.337). In the Bhīmasena Jātaka (J.i.356) the Bodhisatta is erwähnt as living for some time in Mahimsaka in his birth as Cūladhanuggaha pandita. Mahimsaka is erwähnt (z.B., Vibhā.4) as an example of a country where cold weather frequently occurs.
The country is generally identified mit Malayagiri, the Malabar Ghats. See also Mahisamandala.