ABSTRACT
VIDEHAS, KOSALAS, AND ](A5:1s. TIlE tide of Aryan conquests rolled onward. When the country between the Jumna 'and the Ganges had been completely conquered, peopled, and Hinduised, new bands of adventurous settlers crossed the Ganges and marched further eastwards to found new colonies and new Hindu kingdoms. Stream after stream was crossed, forest after
. forest was explored and cleared, region after region was slowly conquered, peopled, and Hinduised in this onward march towards the l·nknown east. The history of the long struggles and the gradual development of the Hindu power in these regions has been lost to us; and we only see, in the literature which has been preserved, the establishment of powerful and civilised Hindu kingdorns east of the Ganges,-the kingdom of the Kosalas in the country known as modern Oudh, that of the Videhas in North Behar, and that of the Kasis round modern Benares.
