Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c10.21

c10.21

The suggestion is further supported by the identification of Vaṅgālavaḍā-bhū in the Rāmasiddhi-pāṭaka of the *Navya* region of Vaṅga, mentioned in the Sāhitya Pariṣad plate¹ of Viśvarūpa-sena, with modern Bāṅgroṛa in the region of Rāmsiddhi in the Gaurnaḍi region of the Buckergunge District. Vaṅgāla thus appears to have been popularly mentioned as a separate political unit, after the Candras had established a kingdom in Vaṅgāla; i.e. the southern part of Vaṅga. Śrīcandra, son of Trailokya-candra, conquered the Dacca and Faridpur Districts, as the find-spots of his records would show. Laḍahacandra, grandson of Śrīcandra, apparently ruled also over the Tipperah District. Thus Vaṅga proper was now included in the new kingdom of Vaṅgāla. As a result of this, the name Vaṅgāla could be optionally used in an expanded sense to indicate a large area in East Bengal that formed part of the kingdom of Śrīcandra and his successors. By this time, Vaṅga and Vaṅgāla apparently signified more or less the same territory.