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Finally let us note, that the great sage Sarabhaṅga, to whom the three southern kings discussed above are said to have approached for instruction, living in a hermitage on the river Godāvarī with a large number of pupils, figures also in the *Rāmāyaṇa*¹ in a similar setting. It is again interesting to note, that Sarabhaṅga is styled ‘Kondañña’ (Kauṇḍinya) in two of the *gāthās* of our *Jātaka*.² And we hear of a sage called Vidarbhi Kauṇḍinya even in the *Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad*.³ The two sages may or may not have been identical, but this fully bears out Sarabhaṅga’s association with Vidarbha,⁴ and also the fact of Bhīmaratha’s being a Vidarbha king.