Tribes in Ancient India c70.24

c70.24

Among references to Matsya in the Buddhist literature, we may mention *Aṅguttara Nikāya* (I, p. 213; IV, pp. 252, 256, 260), where Matsya is named as one of the *Mahājanapadas* of India. There is a reference to the Matsyas or Macchas (together with the Kāsīs and Śūrasenas) in the *Janavasabha Suttanta* of the *Dīgha Nikāya* in connection with the account of the Buddha’s stay in Nāḍika.⁹ In the *Vidhurapaṇḍita Jātaka* we read that the Macchas witnessed the dice-play of the king of the Kurus with the Yakkha Puṇṇaka.¹⁰