India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.30

c7.s4.30

¹⁶ *Kuru* (IV.1.172). It was known to Pāṇini as a *janapada* and a kingdom. He also mentions the town of Hāstinapura (VI.2.101), which was its capital. The region between the triangle of Thaneshwar, Hisar and Hastinapur was distinguished by three different names: Kuru-rāshṭra proper between the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā with its capital at Hastināpura; Kurujāṅgala equal to Rohtak, Hansi, Hissar; and Kuru-kshetra to the north with its centre at Thaneshwar, Kaithal, Karnal. The *Kāśikā* mentions all the three as distinct geographical units (*Kuravaścha Kurukshetraṁ cha Kuru-Kurukshetram, Kuravaścha Kurujāṅgalaṁ cha Kuru-Kurujāṅgalam*, II.47). The name Āsandīvat, the place with the king's throne where Jana-