India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.25

c7.s4.25

14. *Trigarta.* It is mentioned by Pāṇini as an *Āyudhajīvī Saṅgha*, and a Confederation of Six States known as Trigarta-Shashṭha (V.3.116). The Trigarta country, although in itself marked out by natural boundaries from the rest of the province, was partitioned into smaller territorial divisions or *janapadas*. The name Trigarta denotes the region drained by the three rivers, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, and corresponds to the Jālandhar group of states which had retained their geographical identity all these years. Jālandharāyaṇa is mentioned in the Rājanyādi group (IV.2.53).