The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.42

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On the eastern side of the continent the tributary kingdoms were Samatata, or the delta of the Brahmaputra; Kāmarūpa, or Assam; and Davāka, which seems to have been practically synonymous with Vanga, lying between Karatoya on the west, the Ganges on the south, Meghna on the east, and the Khasi Hills on the north, and including both Dacca and Sunārgāon.¹ Farther west, the mountain kingdom of Nepāl, then, as now, retained its autonomy under the suzerainty of the paramount power, and the direct jurisdiction of the imperial government extended only to the foot of the mountains. The kingdom of Kartripura occupied the lower ranges of the Western Himalayas, including probably Kumāon, Almora, Garhwāl, and Kangra.²