The earliest reference to Angas (अंग) occurs in the Atharava Veda (V.22.14) where they find mention along with the Magadhas, Gandharis and the Mujavatas, all apparently as a despised people. The Jain Prajnapana ranks the Angas and the Vangas in the first group of Aryan peoples. According to Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya, Anga was one of the sixteen great nations (solas Mahajanapadas) which had flourished in central and north-west India in the 6th century BC. Anga a… (More on Anga)