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GEOGRAPHY
the Bhāgirathi forming the dividing line between them. The northern Pañcāla had its capital at Ahicchatra 2 (Adhicchatrā in Aşāờhasena's inscriptions), identified with modern Ramnagar in the Bareilly district. According to the Somanassa Jātaka, its capital Uttarapañcāla bore the same name as the janapada.3 The capital of Dakkhiņapancāla was Kampilla (Sk. Kāmpilya) which is identical with modern Kampil in the Farokhabad district. In the Kumbhakāra Jātaka, however, Kampilla, situated on the right bank of the Ganges, is wrongly described as the capital of Uttarapañcāla.
Vamsa (Vatsa): This country, called Vatsabhūmi in the Mahābhārata, was, as Hiuen Tsang know it, about 6,000 li in circuit, and its capital, Kausāmbi, about 30 li. “It was a fertile country with a hot climate; it yielded much upland rice and sugarcane; its people were enterprising, fond of the arts, and cultivators of religious merit.'8 In the Lalitavistara, however, its inhabitants are criticised as “rude and rough' (prākştam cha
1 Malalasekera, op. cit., ii, p. 108. 2 Mahābhārata, Adiparva, Ch. 140. 3 Jataka, v, p. 444. 4 Ibid., zü, p. 379. 6 Mahābhārata, ii, 30. G Watters, op. cit., i, p. 366,
