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KINGS AND PEOPLES
111 as already pointed out, also occupied a small territory between Vesāli and Sävatthi.
Among the peoples of the Aparänta or western sea-board other than the Sindhu-Sovīras, we have mention in the Apadāna (ii, p. 359) of the Suratthas, Aparāntakas and Suppārikas (or Suppārakas). The Jaina canonical texts mention the name of Kaochas, who settled down in a territory, now known as Cutch. The Bharukacchas (Sk. Bhřgukacchas) were the citizens of Bharukaccha (modern Broach in Kathiawar)." The kingdom of Bharu stood on the sea and was three hundred leagues in extent. The tradition is that the whole of this kingdom was submerged in the soa by the fury of the gods.1 According to the Divyāvadāna (p. 576) the kingdom of Bhiru with its principal city Bhiruka or Bhirukaccha was founded by and named after Bhiru, who was one of the two chief ministers of king Rudrāyaṇa of Sauvira in the lower Indus Valley. Rudrāyana, a contemporary of king Bimbisāra of Magadha, was · killed by his wicked son Sikhandi, whose kingdom was afterwards destroyed as a punishment for this crime. The legend concerning the foundation of the Bhiru kingdom with its capital in the Buddha's time cannot be believed, for the simple reason that the kingdom and its sea-port
1 Jataka, ü, p. 169f.
