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" Mathava, the Videgha, then said (to Agni), 'Where am I to abide?' 'To the east of this (river) be thy abode!' said he. Even now this (river) forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas; for these are the Mathavas (or descendants of Mathava). "
A History of SANSKRIT LITERATURE - Page 213
by ARTHUR A MACDONELL - 1900
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A History of Civilization in Ancient India: Vedic and epic ages

Romesh Chunder Dutt - India - 1889 - 340 pages
...as it were, rages along ; so cold it is, not having been burnt over by Agni Vaisvanara. "17. Madhava the Videgha then said' (to Agni),. ' Where am I to...abide ? ' 'To the east of this (river) be thy abode ! ' said he. Even now this river forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas ; for these are the...
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A Literary History of India

Robert Watson Frazer - India - 1898 - 502 pages
...as it were, rages along : so cold is it, not having been burned over by Agni Vaisvanara." " Madhava, the Videgha, then said to Agni, ' Where am I to abide ? ' ' To the east of this river be thy abode,' said he. Even now this river forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas ; for these are the Mathavas...
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The British Empire Series: India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, British North ...

Great Britain - 1899 - 638 pages
...to the east, and when he came to the Gandak River, in North Behar, he asked the god Agni or Fire, " Where am I to abide ?" " To the east of this river be thy abode," replied Agni, and thenceforth the Videhas lived to the east of the Gandak River. Schools of learning...
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The Satapatha-brâhmana. Part I: According to the Text of the ..., Part 1, Book 1

Julius Eggeling - 1900 - 934 pages
...(river), as it were, rages along l : so cold is it, not having been burnt over by Agni Vauvanara. 17. Mathava, the Videgha, then said (to Agni), ' Where...abide ? ' ' To the east of this (river) be thy abode ! ' said he. Even now this (river) forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas ; for these are the...
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A History of India from the Earliest Times: Vol. 1: From the Age ..., Volume 1

Vaman Somnarayan Dalal - India - 1914 - 426 pages
...as it were, rages along ; so cold it is, not having been burnt over by Agni Vaisvanara. 17. Madhava, the Videgha then said to Agni, ' Where am I to abide ' ? ' To the east of this river be thy abode 1 said he. Even now this river forms the boundary of the Kosalas, and the Videhas ; for these are the...
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The Indo-Aryan Races: A Study of the Origin of Indo-Aryan People and ..., Page 1

Ramaprasad Chanda - Aryans - 1916 - 308 pages
...that (river), as it were, rages along: so cold is it, not having been burnt over t>y Agni Vaisvanara. "Mathava, the Videgha, then said (to Agni), ' where am I to abide ? ' 'To the east of this (river) is to be thy abode! ' said he. Even now this (river) forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas...
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Some Kṣatriya Tribes of Ancient India

Bimala Churn Law - Kshatriyas - 1923 - 342 pages
...that (river), as it were, rages along : so cold is it, not having been burnt over by Agni Vaisvanara. Mathava, the Videgha, then said (to Agni), 'Where...abide ?' 'To the east of this (river) be thy abode/ said he. Even now this (river) forms the boundary of the Kosalas and the Videhas ; for these are the...
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Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 9

University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - Buddhism - 1923 - 400 pages
...had caused Agni to taste it through sacrifices, Mathava the Videgha then said to Agni, " where ami to abide?" "To the east of this river be thy abode," he replied. Even now, the writer of the Datapaths Brahmana adds, this forms the boundary between the Kosalas and the Videhas. The name...
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Ṛgvedic Culture

Abinas Chandra Das - Civilization, Aryan - 1925 - 606 pages
...river Brahmans did not cross in former times, thinking 'it has not been burnt over by Agni Vaisvanara.' At that time the land to the eastward was very uncultivated...between the Kosalas (Oudh) and the Videhas (Tirhut)." 1 1 Macdonell, Hint, of jiansk. Lit., pp. 21J-.M5 It would thus appear that the Vedic Aryans gradually...
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The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations

Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt - Religion - 1986 - 568 pages
...uncultivated, very marshy, because it had not been tasted by Agni Vaisvanara. Nowadays, however, it is very cultivated, for the Brahmans have caused (Agni) to...abide?' 'To the east of this (river) be thy abode' he said. Even now this (river) forms the boundary of the Kosalas and Videhas". 22 This text is quite revealing...
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