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is said) of Loma-pada’s great grandson, king Campa (Canti-p., v. 134-5 ; 
Hari-V., xxxi. 1699-1700; and Matsya Pur., xlviii. 97) ; but the latter 
name is often used indiscriminately in regard to time, and the city is 
called Campa in an account of Loma-pada’s reign (Ramay., Adi-k., 
xvii. 23). It was situated on the Ganges (Vana-p., lxxxv. 8156 ; and 
cccvii. 17150-51), and is identified with the modern town of Bhagalpur. 
Cunningham says Mudgala-puri, Mudgala^rama and Mudga-giri 
were the old names of Mungir; and an earlier name was Kasta-harana- 
parvata (Arch. Surv. Repts., XV. 15 and 18) Madgurakas are men¬ 
tioned as a people in Eastern India (Matsya Pur., cxiii. 44), and Muda- 
karas (Markand.Pur., lvii. 42); probably the correct reading should be 
Mudagiras. The Mudgalas are cursorily mentioned in Drona-p., xi. 397. 
Xone of these names, however, can well be older than Modagiri in the 
Maha-Bharata. 
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Aijga therefore comprised the modern districts of Bhagalpur and 
Monghyr, and also extended northwards up the river Kau^ki, the 
modern Kosi, and included the western portion of the district of Purnia. 
For it was on that river that Ka^yapa Vibhandaka had his hermitage, 
there his son Rsyat^rijga was brought up in the strictest seclusion, and 
from there the young rsi was beguiled by a courtesan of MalinI into a 
boat and brought down the river to the capital (Vana-p., cx. 9990-10080 ; 
and Ramay., Adi-k., viii. and ix.). The forest in which Rsya^’gga lived 
is said to have bordered on Agga (Adi-k., ix. 55-61), and the whole of 
this quaint story implies that he was living within the territory of 
Arjga, for no embassage was sent to any other king for permission to 
bring him away, as when Da^a-ratha paid a special visit to Loma-pada 
to invite the rsi’s attendance at Ayodhya to perform the sacrifice which 
was to bless the king with a son (id., x. 14-23). 
The tract near Campa was called Suta-visaya, “ the land of bards 
or charioteers.” It was there that Karna, Kunti’s illegitimate son, was 
adopted and brought up by the Suta Adhi-ratha (Adi-p., lxvii. 
2764-83, and cxi.; and Vana-p., cccvii. 17150-51, and cccviii). 
Arjga was a kingdom from very early times, for it is said that 
Ariha, the eighth descendant from Puru, married Apgi or Apgl, and 
his fifth descendant who bore the same name married Apgeji, both 
presumably Apga princesses (Adi-p., xcv. 3772 and 3777). And Vasu- 
homa is mentioned as king of Apga contemporary with the great 
Mandhatr, one of the early kings of the Solar race, and is eulogized 
in high terms (panti-p., cxxii). Passages such as these present diffi¬ 
culties as noticed above, and are also open to distrust as being fabrica¬ 
tions of a later age, but there are these considerations in favour of their 
genuineness and authenticity, namely, that in all countries and especi- 
