Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c13.42

c13.42

⁷ न प्राच्यभर्गादि-यौधेयादिभ्यः ॥ ४ ॥ १ ॥ १७८ ॥ The Bhargas are called here 'Easterners.' According to the Mahā-Bhārata (Sabhā-Parvan, xxx 10, 14), they were between the Vatsa territory and the Southern Mallas, who were not very far from the Videhas. Pāṇini finds them a political community like the Yaudheyas, with whom he groups them (IV. 1. 168-78). The Buddhist records mention the Bhargas in the republican groups extending from Kosala and Kausāmbī eastwards, and place the Bhargas next to the Vatsas (*Buddhist India*, p. 22; Jātaka, III, 157).