Tribes in Ancient India c54.31

c54.31

From the above account we see that the Vaṅga country seems to have been distinguished from that of the Gauḍas in the eighth century A.D.; and this distinction seems to have been maintained as late as the twelfth century A.D. In the Pithāpuram plates of Prithvīsena (A.D. 1186) King Malla is said to have subdued among others the kings of the Vaṅgas, Magadhas and Gauḍas. In the Tirumalai Rock Inscription¹ of King Rājendra Cola (1025 A.D.) Vaṅgaladeśam, i.e. the realm of the Vaṅgālas or Vaṅgas (at that time ruled over by Govinda Candra) is distinguished from Uttira-Lāḍam or Uttara-Rāḍha (= the Brahma country of the Kāvyamīmāṃsā),² ruled over by Mahipāla, and from Takkana-Lāḍam or Dakṣiṇa Rāḍha (= Suhma of the Epics, the Purāṇas and the Kāvyamīmāṃsā), ruled over by Raṇaśūra. The Kāvyamīmāṃsā,² a work of the tenth century A.D., mentions Aṅga, Vaṅga, Suhma, Brahma, Puṇḍra, etc., as janapadas of the east. The Vaṅga country is also referred to not only in the copperplate grant of Vaidyadeva of Kāmarūpa (twelfth century), who is said to have been victorious in southern Vaṅga (Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 355), but also in the Edilpur plate of Keśavasena, the Madanpāḍa plate of Viśvarūpasena, and the Sāhitya Parishad plate of the same king (Inscriptions of Bengal, Vol. III, pp. 119, 133 and 141).