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The Divyāvadāna, as already pointed out, fixes the Pundakakşa hill as its eastern boundary beyond which was Pundravardhana in North Bengal, also included in the Mid-land. But there is no justification in saying that the country of Kajangala, with its chief town of the same name, was in any sense identical with Pundravardhana. According to Hiuen Tsang, the country of Kajangala, 2,000 li in circuit, was bounded on the north by the Ganges; the kingdom of Pundravardhana could be reached from its capital by journeying about 600 li eastward across the Ganges. Kajangala was a prosperous place whero food was easily available (dabbasambhårā-sulabhā).2 The Anguttara, Nikāya 8 speaks of a Bamboo-grove at the town of Kajangala, while in the Majjhima Nikāya, we have mention of another locality named Mukheluvana. At the south-east of this country was the river called Salaļavati.
Sumbha: This was the land of the Sumbhas with Setaka, Sedaka or Desaka as its chief town. Dr. R. C. Majumdar inclines to identify Sumbha with Suhma (modern Midnapore district). But the location of the tract is uncertain.
· Anguttara, v, p. 54f.
1 Beal, Buddhist Records, ni, p. 193f. 2 Jätaka, lv, p. 310f. 4 Majjhima, iii, p. 298. 6 Samyutta, v, p. 89; Jataka, 1, p. 393.
