Vaṁsā untranslated

Vaṁsā, Vaṁsas, Vatsā, Vatsas. The Vaṁsas and their country. It lay to the south of Kosala, and its capital was Kosambī (e.g., Ja.iv.28) on the Yamunā. Udena, son of Parantapa, also called Vaṁsarājā (e.g., Ja.iv.370,390), was its king in the time of the Buddha.

Avanti lay to the south of the Vaṁsa country. The Vaṁsā were also called Vatsā (Buddhist India, 3, 27; Mvu.i.34). The country formed one of the sixteen Mahā Janapadā.

The district of Bhagga, in which was Suṁsumāragiri, seems to have been subject to the Vaṁsā in the Buddha’s time, for we find Udena’s son, Bodhi, living there (Ja.iii.157, also Mahā Bhārata ii.30, 10f). In nominal lists (e.g., DN.ii.200) the Vaṁsā, are generally mentioned with the Cetī.