Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.240

c8.240

Kajaṅgala (Kayaṅgala).—This extensive hill tract lay to the east of Aṅga and extended from the Ganges in the north-east to the Suvarṇarekhā in the south-east. It was a Brahmin village, which was the birth-place of Nāgasena (Milindapañha, p. 10). The Buddha once dwelt at Veluvana in Kajaṅgala (Aṅguttara Nikāya, V. 54). The Master delivered the Indriyabhāvanāsutta during his sojourn at Mukheluvana in Kajaṅgala (Majjhima Nikāya, III, 298). In the Buddha’s time, food could be easily obtained here (dabbasambhārā sulabhā—Jātaka, IV, 310). In the Mahāvagga (Vinaya texts, S.B.E., II, 38) as well as in the Sumaṅgalavilāsinī (II, 429), it is stated to have been the eastern limit of Madhyadeśa beyond the Brahmin village of Mahāsāla. It is the Ka-chu-wen-ki-lo of Yuan Chwang. It was 2,000 li in circuit and was bounded on the north by the Ganges. It is to be located somewhere in the Rajmahal district. It formed the western boundary of the Pūrvadeśa. There was a river called the Salalavatī in the south-east.