ANUGANGAM, &C- 4S 



bably, the same wUh the And'hra-ja i icas, and 

 the KiELiTii:' of the Chinese Historians. 



The Axd'hua kings, on the banks of the Ganges, 

 were famous all over India, and in the west : for the 

 An d'hiia tribe, or family, is })laced to tlie north of 

 tlie Ganges, bv the compiler of the Peutingerian 

 Tables, under the name o\' Andre- Indi, or Indians of 

 the And'hra family or tribe. After Pui.ima'n, the 

 And'hra Bhrityas, according to the Purdrias, or 

 the servants of, the And'hra kings, usurped the go- 

 vernment ; and the Chinese historians take particulaF 

 notice of this circuniitance. 



It is declared, in several Purdnas, that ]Maha- 

 nanda, and his successors resided at Padmdvati, or 

 Cusumdpuri, by which Patna is understood. But 

 these are only epithets, and not the real name of a 

 city ; and always given by poets to favourite towns. 

 Thus Burdican was called Cusumdpuri ; and Ra?igd- 

 7natti, near Moorshcdabad, likewise, as well as the 

 town of Hustindpoor. It is remarkable, that of the 

 cities in India, once famous in the writings of the 

 Greeks and Romans, few now are known under these 

 names in India. Thus Taxi la is a name unknown 

 m India ; and it was only after perusing the Purdn'as 

 for many years, that 1 found it barely mentioned in 

 one or two of them. It is the case with Tagara', 

 the name of which is only found in a grant, some 

 years ago discovered at Bombay. 



The kings of Magadlia certainly resided very often 

 at Patna, ai^l latterly they forsook intirely Baliputra, 

 probably owing to the vicinity of Gaur, the Rajahs 

 of which, when pou'erful, could not but prove trou- 

 blesome neighbours ; besides, the continual encroach- 

 ments of the Ganges, and the gradual but constant 

 decay of the metropolis, occasioned by them, natu- 

 rally oblio'cd the kino-s to look oat far a mor&asrce- 



