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118 INDIA AS DESCRIBED' IN EARLY TEXTS • Mahāniddesa 1 and Milindapanha s as a centre of trade reached by sea. According to the Pali chronicles, however, both the country and capital of the Vangas were known as Vanga. The then king of the Vangas had married a princess from the royal family of Kalinga.8
It is in the Atharvaveda (v, 22.14) that we have the earliest mention of the Angas and Magadhas as two peoples. From the Vrátya book of the same Veda (XV), it is evident that they were despised as Vrātyas or peoples who lived outside the pale of orthodox Brahmanism. Anga with its capital at Campā formed one of the seven sub-kingdoms within the empire of Reņu, and it was allotted to a king named Dhatarattha of the line of Bharata. Magadha, however, has no place in this list. According to the Harivamsa and Purāņas, Dadhivāhana was the son and successor of Anga. This Dadhivāhana could not have been the same king Dachivähana of Anga who is represented by the Jainas as a contemporary of Mahāvīra and a weak rival of king Šatānika of Kaušāmbi.$« According to the Pali tradition,, however, the king of Anga in the Buddha's time was Brahma
V Niddesa, vol. i, p. 154. W Milinda, p. 369. W Dipavamaa, ix, 2, V For a learned note on the subject, vide A, B. Keith's paper in TRAS., 1919, p. 156f. J. JASB., 1999, p. 320,
