The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.108

c5.s2.108

**Bhaddiya**—It is also called Bhadiya and Bhadiyanagara in the Pâli books. It may be identified with Bhadaria, eight miles to the south of Bhagalpore [see my “Notes on Ancient Aṅga” in JASB., X, (1914), p. 337]. Mahâvîra, the last of the Jaina Tîrthaṅkaras, visited this place and spent here two Pajjusanas (rainy-season retirement). It was the birth-place of Viśâkhâ, the famous female disciple of Buddha (see Sravasti). She was the daughter of Dhanañjaya and granddaughter of Meṇḍaka, both of whom were treasurers to the king of Aṅga. Buddha visited Bhaddya Mahâvagga, V. 8, 3), when Viśâkha was seven years old and resided; in the Jâtiyavâna for three months and converted Bhaddaji, son of a rich merchant [Mahâvagga, vol. II, p. 229]; V, 8; Mahâ-Panâda-Jâtaka (No. 264) in the Jâtakas (Camb. Ed.). Viśâkhâ’s father removed to a place called Sâketa, 21 miles to the south of Srâvastî, where she was married to Puṇavarddhana or Punyavardhana, son of Migâra, the treasurer of Prasenajit, king of Srâvastî. She caused Migâra, who was a follower of Nigrantha Nâthaputra, to adopt the Buddhist faith, and hence she was called Mîgâramâtâ (Mahâvagga, VIII, 51; Spence Hardy’s Manual of Buddhism, 2nd ed. 226). It appears that at the time of Buddha, the kingdom of Aṅga had been annexed to the Magadha kingdom by Bimbisâra, as Bhaddiya is said to have been situated in that kingdom (Mahâvagga, VI, 34; Spence Hardy’s Manual of Buddhism, p. 166).