Pāli Dictionary

vaṅga

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine


general

  • Vaṅga, an ancient country/region (identified with eastern Bengal)

Encyclopedia

  • The 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.

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