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they are mentioned as Anga Magadha.' Pāṇini groups together Anga, Vanga, Kalinga, Pundra etc. all placed in the midland. The Mahābhārata makes the races of Anga, Vanga, Kalinga etc. to be the descendants of the saint Dirghatamas by Sudesnā, wife of Bāli. According to Zimmar and Bloomfield the Angas were settled on the river Son and Ganges in later times but their early seat was presumably there also. Pargitar regards them as a non-Aryan people that came over sea to eastern India. Enthrographically they were connected with the Kalingas and other peoples of the plains of Bengal.
Anga comprised the country round the modern Bhagalpur. Angas were named after an eponymous king Anga." The capital of Angas was first called Mālini which name was changed to campā or Campāvati in honour of a king named Campa, Lomapada's great grandson. The city of Campā was built by Mahāgovinda. It was here that the Buddha was compelled to prescribe the use of slippers by the monks. At the time of the Buddha campā was a big town and not a village. According to Dr. D. K. Gupta To the South east of Videha lay the Anga country which comprised of the modern districts of Monghyr, Bhagalpur and Purnea. Its capital campā was situated near Lakhisarai in Monghyr district on the bank of Gangā, as the epigraphic evidence suggests. Yugal Kishore Mishra in his article "Anga its name and extant (Journal of the Gangānātha the Kendirya vidyāpeeth XXXIV parts 34 July Dec. 1978 pp. 1-8) has also illustrated Anga as modern districts of Bhagalpur and Munger and extended northworld up to the Kosi river and included western parts of the district of Purnea. It also included some parts of modern Bihar. Pāñcāla
Pāñcāladeśa comprised Bareilly, Badaun, Farrukhabad and the adjoining districts of Rohilkhand and the central Doab in the U. P. It seems to have been bounded on the east by the Gumti and on the south by the Chambal. It extended from the Himālaya mountain to the Chambal river.
1. II. 9. 2. Astād. VI. 1. 170; II 4, 62. 3. I. 104. 4. Anga vairocana is included in the list of anointed Kings in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
(VIII. 22). 5. HGAI pp. 243-244. 6. KSN p. 119. 7. HGAI p. 136.
