Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c8.s3.6

c8.s3.6

It will be seen that Baidyanāthdhām is situated near the southern limits of the original Aṅga country; but Vaidyanātha may here indicate the district round the holy place, and the reference to Bhubaneswar may point to the country’s extension towards the Bay of Bengal. The verse appears to place Aṅga to the south of the Ganges, and it must be admitted that there is no definite evidence indicating the extension of the Aṅga country to the north of that river. According to some manuscripts of the *Bhaviṣya Purāṇa* (see No. 37 below), Vaidyanātha-Mahādeva lay in the Jāngala-Jhārīkhaṇḍa country which was situated to the north of the Dārukeśvara river and to the west of the Bhāgīrathī, between Pañcakūṭa (the former Pañcakoṭ State in the Manbhum District) and Kikaṭa (the Gayā region in South Bihar).