[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c35.s2.2 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.2 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c35.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s2.2) The Pāṇḍya kingdom, approximately equivalent to the modern Madura and Tinnevelly Districts, with part of Trichinopoly and sometimes also of Travancore, is supposed to have been divided into five principalities, the chiefs of which were known as the ‘five Pāṇḍyas’. Details as to the jurisdiction of the several chiefs are unknown, and the evidence for the existence of ‘the five kings’ is of doubtful value.¹ - [Previous: c35.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s1.46) - [Next: c35.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s2.3) - [Up: c35.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c35.s2.2) · Pramāṇa