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144 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA as Vidarbha and Dandaka were founded by princes of the Yadu (Bhoja) family. The Mahāgovinda Suttanta mentions. Brahmadatta, king of the Assakas, as a contem. porary of Sattabhu, king of Kalinga, Vessabhu, king of Avanti, Bharata, king of Sovīra, Reņu, king of Videha, Dhatarattha, king of Anga and Dhatarattha, king of Kāsi.
We learn from the Assaka Jātaka that at one time the city of Potali was included in the kingdom of Kāsi, and that its prince, Assaka, was presumably a vassal of the Kāsi monarch. The Chulla Kalinga Jataka mentions a king of Assaka named Aruña and his minister Nandisena, and refers to a victory which they won over the king of Kalinga.
Avanti roughly corresponds to the Ujjain region, together with a part of the Narmadā valley from Māndhātā to Maheshwar, and certain adjoining districts. Late Jaina writers include within its boundaries Tumbavana or Tumain in the Guna district of the Gwalior state about 50 miles to the north-west of Eran.3 The Janapada was divided into two parts by the Vindhyas : the northern part drained by the Siprā and other streams had its capital at Ujjain and the southern part washed by the Narmadā had its centre at Māhissati or
1 Dialogues of the Buddha, Part II, p. 270. The last-mentioned prince is known to the Sat. Br. XIII. 5. 4. 22.
2 No. 207. 3 Iha iva Jambudvipe' pāg Bhartārdha Vibhushanam
Avantiriti deso 'sti svargadesiya riddhibhih tatra Tumbavanamiti vidyate sanniveśanam.
Parisishtaparvan, XII. 2-3. For the position of Tumbavana, see Ep. Ind. XXVI. 115ff.
