Geography of Early Buddhism c8.34
Geography of Early Buddhism c8.34
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In one of the Jātakas (Cowell's Jātaka, V, pp. 146-147) we are told that King Okkāka had a son named Kusa who married a daughter of the King of Madda. It is further stated that King Okkāka went with a great retinue from Kusāvatī, his capital, to the city of Sāgala, capital of the Madda King. From the Kālingabodhi Jātaka (Cowell's Jātaka, IV, pp. 144-145) we know that a matrimonial alliance was established between the King of Madda and the King of Kaliṅga. Another matrimonial alliance of the Madda King was made with the royal house of Benares (Chaddanta Jātaka—Cowell's Jātaka, V, p. 22). The Mahāvaṃsa (p. 70) tells us that in Sīhapura, on the death of King Sīhavāhu, his son Sumitta became king, and married the daughter of the Madda King and had three sons by her.