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154 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
Success, however, did not remain long with the Kāśis.1 In the Mahāsīlava Jātaka2 king Mahāsilava of Kāsi is said to have been deprived of his realm by the ruler of Kosala.. In the Ghata) and Ekarāja Jātakas. Vanka and Dabbasena, sovereigns of Kosala, are said to have won for their country a decided preponderance over Kāsi. The final conquest of the latter kingdom was probably the work of Kamsa, as the epithet Barānasiggaho, i.e., "seizer of Benares” is a standing addition to his name. The interval of time between Kanisa's conquest of Kāsi and the rise of Buddhism could not have been very long because the memory of Kāsi as an independent kingdom was still fresh in the minds of the people in the Buddha's time and even later when the Anguttara Nikāya was composed.
In the time of Mahākosala (about the middle of the sixth century B. C.) Kāsi formed an integral part of the Kosalan monarchy. When Mabākosala married his daughter, the lady Kosalādevī, to king Bimbisāra of Magadha, he gave a village of Kāsi producing a revenue of a hundred thousand for bath and perfume money.
In the time of Mahākosala's son and successor, Pasenadi or Prasenajit, Kāsi still formed a part of the Kosalan empire. In the Lohichcha Sutta? Buddha asks a person named Lohichcha the following questions : “Now what think you Lohichcha ? Is not king Pasenadi of Kosala in possession of Kāsi and Kosala ?” Lohichcha
1 Cf. Jataka No. 100. 2 No. 51. 3 No. 355. 4 No. 303.
5 The Seyya Jataka, No. 282 ; the Tesakuna Jātaka, No. 521 ; Buddhist India, p. 25.
6 Harita Māta Jātaka, No. 239 ; Vadahaki Sükara Jataka, No. 283 7 Dialogues of the Buddha, Part I, 288-97.
