Tribes in Ancient India c61.s6.4

c61.s6.4

We know nothing of the history of the Licchavis during the period of their early growth and development. The earliest political fact of any importance that we know of is that a Licchavi girl was given in marriage to Seṇiya or Śreṇika Bimbisāra, king of Magadha. This Licchavi lady, according to the *Nirayāvalī Sūtra*, one of the early Jaina works, was Cellanā, the daughter of Ceṭaka,³ one of the *Rājās* of Vaiśālī, whose sister Kṣatriyānī Triśalā was the mother of Mahāvīra. In a Tibetan *Life of the Buddha*, her name is given as Śrībhadrā,⁴ and in some places she is named Maddā.⁵ She is, however, usually called Vaidehī in the Buddhist books, and her son Ajātaśatru is frequently designated ‘Vedehiputto’,⁶ or the son of the Videhan princess.