Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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The members of these Ksatriya clans were associated with the Government along with the other high dignitaries of the state and enjoyed an important status in the society and occupied a place in the contemporary history of the period of the Bhs. They are also recorded in other Jaina texts as the Ksatriya clans.
Ugras
The Ugras of the Bhs are mentioned in the Uvāsagadasão,* while in the Buddhist Anguttara Nikāya they are found as being associated with Vaisāli and Hatthigāma." The earliest reference to the Ugras occurs in the Vedic literature which states, "Rule here a mighty benevolent (king) upto tenth decade of thy life” “Dasamimugraḥ sumanā vaseha”.5
The evidences regarding the identification of the Ugras, furnished by all the Jaina, Buddhist,' and Brahmaņical sources show that they were a Ksatriya clan settled over different parts of Northern India during the time of Lord Mahāvīra. The existence of this clan may still be traced in the Ugas of Rajputānā” and the Ugra-Ksatriyas of Burdwan (West Bengal) commonly known as Āguri. Bhogas
The Bhogas were one of the Ksatriya clans occupying an important position in the state as well as in the society according to the evidences of the Jaina" and Buddhist"a works.
i Ovaiya Sutta, 23, 38; Kalpa Sutra, S. 211; Uvāsagadasào,
II, p. 139 etc. ? Uvāsagadasão, II, p. 139. * Anguttara Nkaya, 1.26 (gao-gahapati Petaloko-Nipāta,
1.14.6.). 4 Nipātu, 1. 14. 6, IV. The Dhammapada commentary refers
to a city of Ugga. . Atharva Veda, III, 4.7. Vide, Hindu Polity : K. P. Jayaswal,
p. 189 f., note 9. 6 U vasagadasão, II, p. 139. 7 Angutara Nikāya, 1, 26 (Nipāta, 1.14.6). 8 Atharva Veda, ili, 4. 7, Vide, Hindu Polity p. 189 f., note 9;
Manusmrti X, 9; See Abhidhāna-Cintāmani, V, 896. 9 The Rajputana Gazetteer, p. 275 ; Vide, Sherring's Hindu
Tribes and castes Vol. III, p. 46. 10 Vide, Uvāsagadasão, II, p. 139. 11 Uvasagadasão, II, p. 139. 13 Mahaparinivvāna Suttanta, 1, (Digha Nikaya) 122-26; Cf. also
Sutta Nipāta, 194.