Vaṅgā
PlaceThe country of the Vaṅgā people, identified with modern Bengal, mother-country of the Vaṅga princess who married a Kāliṅga king and became grandmother of Sīhabāhu and Sīhasīvalī, and noted in the Milindapañha as a trading port reached by sea.
The name of a people and their country, the modern Bengal.
It is nowhere mentioned in the four Nikāyas, nor included among the sixteen great countries (Mahājanapada).
The mother of Sīhabāhu and Sīhasīvalī was a Vaṅga princess, the daughter of the Vaṅga king who had married the daughter of the king of Kāliṅga (Mhv.vi.1 ff; Dpv.ix.2).
The Milindapañha(p.359) mentions Vaṅga as a trading place to be reached by sea.
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