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132 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
Ayojjhā as a contemporary of Sāgara of Uttaramadhurā and Vasudeva Kanha of Dväravati. The capital of the Kosalas in the Buddha's time was Sãvatthi on the right bank of the Aciravati. King Dasaratha whom the Rāmāyana represents as the king of Kosala with his capital at Ayodhya is described in the Dasaratha Jātaka as, the • king of Kāsi. The second capital of the Kosalas was Säketa as may be inferred from the Nandiyamiga Jataka.1 But Vanka and many others are said to have reigned in Kosala when Săvatthi became its capital. This was indeed the third and last capital of the Kosalas. At the time of the rise of Buddhism, Pasenadi, son and successor of Mahāpasenadi, was king of Kosala. Kāsi became subordinate to Kosala already during the reign of Pasenadi's father. Käsi was at that time being governed by Pasenadi's brother who was evidently his viceroy. The throne of Kosala was being usurped by prince Virudhaka, a son of Pasenadi. Pasenadi is known to have been not only a contemporary of the Buddha but also a person who was born on the same date and died in the same year (tvam pi asitiko aham pi asitiko).
The Vamsas or Vacchas 8 were a people who founded their territory along the right bank
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1 No. 386.
% Dhammacetiya Sutta, Majjhima, i. * For fuller details, see B. O. Law, Ancient Mid-Indian Kaatriya - Tribes, Vol. I, Ch VI.
