India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.56
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.56
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(8) *Bharata*. This *gaṇa* alone mentions the *Bharatas* as an *āyudhjīvī Saṅgha*. It must be some old tradition, otherwise Pāṇini locates them in the Kuru region, on the borderland of the Udīchya and Prāchya divisions of India. According to another *sūtra* the Kurus lived under a regal form of government. It seems that these Bharatas lived round about Kurukshetra as a *Saṅgha* in Pāṇini's time.