Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c10.13

c10.13

The Raghuvamśa reference to the defeat of the Vaṅga people in the land watered by the lower streams of the Ganges⁶ and epigraphic references to Vaṅga comprising the Vikrampur region of Dacca and Faridpur¹ and to the *Nāvya* region of Vaṅga very probably in the Faridpur and Buckergunge Districts,² leave hardly any doubt that Vaṅga certainly included at least parts of the present Dacca, Faridpur and Buckergunge Districts. In the lower part of this region very high roads or earthen-embankments are constructed even today in order to prevent the tide of floods and to facilitate communications during the rainy season. It may therefore be suggested that the southern part of old Vaṅga thus at first came to be known as Vaṅgāla. It is interesting to note that this view is supported by other evidences.