Bhagalpur was the capital of Anga at the time of the great Mahabharata, and a place of consideration from a very ancient date to at least the eighth and ninth centuries. Fifty yojans more to the east, at the confluence of the river with the sea, was the kingdom of To-mo-li-ti. The religion of Buddha was in a nourishing state in this principality, and Fa Hian abode there two years, transcribing ma…