nor ste Me ned Is ‘ Kuru king named a Who ry, to iS With th ke ; ng Su ‘matrimonial relation’ the Yada! p ry al s Were a Moa x, CKosae) The Ja The Kurus os the Buddha, the Kurus archy, sy Fo Ta the town of It he time ras am las. Up 10 8 fas, and res . ne Rohilkhand area and pari ©! the ceny sequently, they beca cluded 1 py the Ganga. The capital of Uitara (ony) The kingdom al 0 two parts by agar in Bareilly distri 1) dab region, and was divided int Fr iy modern Ramnaga’ MU Uist, Up Panchala was Ahichchhatra (iden0'" amply (identified with Korpil in Fan, chala j locates : and chat of Dt) ae of Kanyakubja oF Kan) tee on Gon y mou: ral Goin, Kaba district, UP). The Boe jon a king named Cte shed oan ote doom. Several ance shacra, he Panchalas seem C0 RAVE gach testimony of the Arthashastra, form of government. a located in the Jaipur area in Rajasthan, exteng The principality of . SSS" 1g well, Theit capital was Viratanagara (moder ee Alar and Bhar ofthe Kingdom. Buddhist texts usualy associate rat), named a Matyas pa the, Met cerial Mathura (ale known as Madura) on the ¥, muna, Buddhist tradition describes Avantiputta, king of the Shurasenas, 26 a disciple the Buddha. This king’ name (literally, ‘son of Avanti) suggests the possibility of a ma, rimonial alliance between Shurasena and Avanti. The Mahabharata and the Puranas rele to rulers of the Mathura region as the Yadu or Yadavas, who included the Vrishnis, Texts such as the Ashtadhyayi, Markandeya Purana, Brihatsamhita, and the Greek a- counts suggest that the Assaka (Ashmaka/Ashvaka) kingdom was situated in the nonh- west. However, the Assaka of Buddhist texts is firmly located on the Godavari rive Its capital was Potana/Podana or Potali, identified with modern Bodhan. The Godavan separated Assaka from the neighbouring kingdom of Mulaka or Alaka with its capital a Pratishthana (identified with modern Paithan). Jataka stories suggest that Assaka may a some point have come under the sway of Kashi and that it achieved a military victor over Kalinga in eastern India. (vant, inthe Malwa region of central India, was divided into a northem and part by the Vindhyas. The two impo of this kingdom were Ma (Gaui (dented with modern Mahes at modern Ujain), bt a are mentioned in ancient texts as its capital. These two cities were import Points on trade routes ed north India, both with the Deccan and with pots on the western coast( Pi a famo us king of Av: vhose time ths kingdom was involved Saeed flicts with Va and Kosala. - he Kingdom of an compricd mole, Peshawar and Rawalpindi distr Pad ag the Kashmir valley. ts capital Takshashila CTaxla) was a major ene ae earning King Pukkusati or Pushkarasarin ruled over Gandhara in the mit fant The stun tpi a he a se A ion of the Achaemenid em i that Gam hara was conquered by the Persians in the later part Soha The Anci Yoni Mali of P; teres loca, Gey