India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.4

c7.s5.4

¹ *Nagara* (IV.2.142), e.g., Mahānagara and Navanagara, as names of towns 'not in the north' (*anudīchām*, VI.2.89) but in the east. Mahānagara as an eastern town is to be identified with Mahāsthāna, capital of north Bengal or Puṇḍra, and Navanagara with Navadvīpa, capital of west Bengal or Vaṅga. The latter seems to have sprung up as a 'new town'