Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c5.s4.52

c5.s4.52

15. Magadha—mentioned in the *Atharvaveda* along with the Gandhāri and Mūjavat of the north-west and the Aṅga of the east as a border people; a Māgadha, ‘belonging to Magadha’, is mentioned in the *Yajurveda* and *Atharvaveda*; cf. Kikaṭa of the *Ṛgveda* and post-Vedic literature; the *Śrautasūtras* refer to the Brahmabandhu (bad Brāhmaṇa) living in Magadha though the *Kauṣitaki Āraṇyaka* mentions a respectable Brāhmaṇa who was an inhabitant of Magadha; also spelt Vagadha.