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KINGS AND PEOPLES 117 time that they could well afford to lose in battle about throe hundred thousand soldiers.
In the Great Epic and Mārkandeya Purāņa, the Angeyas (Pali Angā), Māgadhas, Vangeyas (Vangā), Sauhmas, Tāmraliptakas, Bhārgavas, Vaidehas and Mallas are counted among the peoples of Eastern India. The early Buddhist and Jaina texts speak also of the Vajjis, Licchavis, Nātas, Sumbhas and Lādhas (Rādhas).
Of them, the Lādhas lived in a pathless country with its two divisions, known as Subbhabhūmi and Vajjabhūmi. It may be rightly supposed that these two divisions of Lādha corresponded to Suhma and Tāmralipti respectively. The Jaina Acārānga Sūtra speaks of the inhabitants of the Rādha country as rude and generally hostile to the ascetics. When the ascetics appeared near their villages, they used to set dogs upon them, uttering the syllables, 'cu cu'.
The Angas, Vangas and Magadhas as countries and peoples figure prominently in the Jaina list of sixteen mahājanapadas, while in the Pali list the Vargas have no place at all. So far as the evidence of the Pali canon and Milindapañha goes, Vanga stood apart from Anga. Vanga finds mention indeed, in the
1 Acäränga sutra, I. 8.3.
