Tribes in Ancient India c31.87

c31.87

As we have seen, in the early days, Kāśī and Kośala are represented as two independent countries whose kings fought with each other.⁴ Kāśī and Kośala are frequently mentioned together in literature (e.g. *Aṅguttara Nikāya*, V, 59). In the Buddha’s time, Kośala was already the paramount power in India. We have seen how several successful invasions of Kāśī had been carried out by the kings of Kośala. Kāśī’s absorption into Kośala was an accomplished fact before the accession of Pasenadi, for Pasenadi’s father Mahā-kośala gave his daughter a village of Kāśī (Kāsigāma) as ‘bath money’, on the occasion of her marriage with King Bimbisāra of Magadha.⁵