[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s3.5 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s3.5 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s3.5 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.5) It was the rise of this great power, Kosala, in the very centre of Northern India, which was the paramount factor in the politics of the time before the Buddhist reform. We do not know the details of this rise. But there are purely incidental references imbedded in the ethical teachings in the Buddhist books which afford us at least hints as to the final manner of it, and as to the date of it. For instance we have the story of Dīghāvu in the Vinaya¹. There Brahmadatta, king of Kāsi, invades Kosala, when Dīghīti was king at Sāvatthī, and conquered and annexed the whole country; but finally restored it to Dīghīti's son, with whom he had become on very friendly terms. Other traditions inform us on the other hand of several invasions of the Kāsi country by the then kings of Kosala, Vaṅka, Dabbasena, and Kaṁsa². And when that most excellent story, the \*Rājovāda Jātaka\*³—as good in humour as it is in ethics—was first put together to represent two kings in conflict, the quite natural idea was to fix upon kings of Kosala and Kāsi, and the author does so accordingly. - [Previous: v1.c19.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.4) - [Next: v1.c19.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.6) - [Up: v1.c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s3.5) · Pramāṇa