Tribes in Ancient India c33.9

c33.9

In the Pāli Buddhist canon, King Udena of the Vamśas is said to have been a contemporary of the Buddha, and to have survived him. Both in Pāli Buddhist and in Brahmanic Sanskrit literature, stories are recited about this King Udena of the Vamsas (Pāli) or Udayana of the Vatsas (Sanskrit). His capital is mentioned as Kosambī or Kauśāmbī respectively, so evidently the Vamśas and Vatsas are identical. In the Jaina books the same people are spoken of as Vacchas.¹