Tribes in Ancient India c32.64

c32.64

The history of Kośala in later times is known chiefly from Jaina and Buddhist literature. In the *Jaina Kalpasūtra* we read that on the death of Mahāvīra, the eighteen confederate kings of Kāśī and Kośala, the nine Mallakis and nine Licchavis, on the day of the new-moon instituted an illumination on the Posada (fasting day)¹. Jacobi observes²: ‘According to the Jainas, the Licchavis and the Mallakis were the chiefs of Kāśī and Kośala. They seem to have succeeded the Aikṣvākas who ruled there in the time of the *Rāmāyaṇa*.’