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area appears to have come under Satanika Parantap, the king of the Vatsyas, whose capital
was Kausambi near Allahabad. Satanika Parantap had attacked Champa, which was then under
the rule of King Dadhivahana. It appears that a later king, Bhattiya of Magadha, was
defeated by Brahmadatta of Anga; but BimbiSara (c. 603-551 B. C.), son of Bhattiya,
avenged his father's defeat and annexed Anga to his empire. Anga, with Champa as the
capital, remained a part of the Magadhan Empire for centuries to come. As a part of
Magadha, Anga experienced the vicissitudes and changes of the ruling dynasties of the
Magadhan Empire. The Sisunagas, Nandas, Mauryas, Sungas and the Guptas, as the rulers of
the Magadhan empire, had control over Magadha some time or other. Bhagalpur district,
which was the core of Anga desha, had also a full impact of the renaissance of Indian art,
which the Guptas had ushered in. Many of the finely executed relies and statues that have
been later found in Bhagalpur district could be ascribed to the Gupta era.
A copper statue of the Buddha measuring 71 feet in height, discovered at Sultanganj, is
an exquisite specimen, which is now kept in the Birmingham Museum. This is one of the
finest of the finds in Bhagalpur district. Fa-hien and Hieun-tsang had both visited
Bhagalpur districts. The district has also the site of the famous Vikramshila University,
as the recent excavations at Patharghatta region near Colgong have unearthed a large
number of relies which go to substantiate the claim of this area as the site of that great
university. |
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