Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.118

c9.s7.118

² According to Pargiter (JASB, 1897, 95) Aṅga comprised the modern districts of Bhāgalpur and Monghyr, and also extended northwards up the river Kauśikī or Kośī and included the western portion of the district of Purnea. For it was on that river that Kāśyapa Vibhāṇḍaka had his hermitage. His son Ṛishyaśṛiṅga was beguiled by courtesans of Aṅga into a boat and brought down the river to the capital. In Mbh. ii. 30. 20-22, however, Modāgiri (Monghyr) and Kauśikī-Kachchha had rulers who are distinguished from Karṇa whose realm (Aṅga) clearly lay between the Māgadhas and the Rājās styled *Parvatavāsin*.