Tribes in Ancient India c50.64

c50.64

While this story is evidently fanciful, the Mahāvagga⁵ offers reasonable evidence to prove that Aṅga came under Bimbisāra’s sway, while the Sonadaṇḍa Suttanta of the Dīgha Nikāya, by mentioning the bestowal of Campā, the capital of Aṅga, as a royal fief on the Brahman Sonadaṇḍa, indirectly proves the same.⁶ The Jaina works⁷ tell us that a Magadhan prince governed Aṅga as a separate province with Campā as its capital. During Bimbisāra’s lifetime, his son Ajātaśatru acted as Viceroy at Campā.