Tribes in Ancient India c33.11

c33.11

The country of the Vamśas or Vatsas must therefore have been located round about Kauśāmbī, the position of which has been identified by Cunningham with Kosām, not very far from Allahabad. According to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā, the land of the Vatsas was in the middle region. It probably lay to the north-east of Avanti along the bank of the Jumna, southwards from Kośala² and to the west of Allahabad.³ The Chinese pilgrim Hsüan Tsang, who speaks of the land of the Vatsas as the Kauśāmbī country, says that it was about 6,000 li in circuit.⁴