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Dr. SUDARSHAN KUMAR SHARMA
SAMBODHI Brahmadatta of Anga having defeated Magadha and conquered Rājagriha. 14 Mahābhārata Santiparva XXIX refers to one Brhadratha as the king of Anga15a Angasya Yajamānasya tadā Visnupade girau”16 — Likewise indicates the area of Magadha having a Visnupadagiri distinct from one referred to in the Mahrauli Iron pillar inscription of Candra (Candragupta Vikramāditya of Gupta regime). Kālidāsa in his Raghuvamsa VI 27-3017 refers to Anganātha coming as a suitor for Indumati, having his elephants trained by the Professors of elephantine science but does not name him to allow the critic to trace out the name of the king who occupied the throne of Campā in the Gupta period. S. A. Sabnis18 in his Kālidāsa, his style and his times, and Dr. Bhagavat Sarana Upādhāyain his "Kālidāsa kā Bhārata", Dr. V. V. Mirashi20 in his Kālidāsa, Dr. Dimbeśvara Sharma21 in his "An interpretative study of Kālidāsa and Vāgīśvara Vidyā-lankāra22 have all ignored the point of identification of Angarāja and Anganātha of Kālidāsa.
Bāna has definitely alluded to an incident having happened during the time of turmoils and that certainly seems to be one detailed by Dandi in his Dasakumāra-carita wherein he has centred his activity of political events around the welfare and security of Angarāja Simha Vermā for whose safeguard he has concentrated the achievements of Rājavāhana son of King of Magadha along with the other princes namely Apahāra Varmā, Upahār Verma, Mitra Gupta, Arthaapāla, Viśruta, Puspabhava, Pramati and Somadatta who symbolises the participants of the intercecine struggle going on in the post Gupta epoch having Magadha-Malava conflict for regainment of the supremacy. Dandi ultimately solves the riddle by ensuring the supremacy of Magadha in collaboration with Angarāja Simha Varmá having demolished the invidious moves of the forces of Mālava Kings who did not have a sacred intention though an intention to usurp what they were not capable of because of their unrighteous tendencies. Hence we shall have to concentrate on Simha Varmā as Angādhipa of Bāna who happened to have the first-hand knowledge of political happening wherein Cāmundi Pati Puskara fond of killing Rhinoceroses was killed by the secret spies of the forces of Angarāja. Puskara a definite name given by Bāna also affords us a cue to the surmise that he must have seen a king of an area where the forests infested by Rhinoceroses were not very far away so as to enable him to reach there from his own capital Cămundi.
Dandi in his Daśakumāracarita (Kathābhāge) Ucchvāsa two, mentions "angeşu gangātaţa bahiścampāyāņ23 clearly indicating the point that Anga country in his times had Campā for its Capital and the shores of Gangā were
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