Hemāṅgada

Hemāṅgada was the ruling king of Kaliṅga, the great kingdom on the eastern coast of Bhāratavarsha. He appears in the Vivāha Kāṇḍa of the Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa as one of the kings at the svayaṃvara (the ceremony in which a princess chooses her own husband) of Campikā.

At the svayaṃvara of Campikā

Bhūrikīrti Mahārāja arranged the svayaṃvara of Campikā at Vaṭapura. The assembled kings were described to Campikā by Nanda, and Hemāṅgada was among them. He was respectfully passed over. Campikā then chose Kuśa and placed her māla (garland) on him.

His name has the word hema (gold) in it.

Sources

• Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa, Vivāha Kāṇḍa, Chapter 2