The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.18

c5.s1.18

Ahichchhatra—Ramnagar, twenty miles west of Bareli, in Rohilkhand. The name of Ahichchhatra is at present confined to the great fortress in the lands of Alampur Kot and Nasratganj. It was the capital of North Pañchāla or Rohilkhand (Dr. Führer, MAI., and Cunningham, Anc. Geo., p. 359). It was also called Chhatravatī (Mahābhārata, Ādi-parva, ch. 168). It is Adhichchhatra of the inscriptions (Epigraphia Indica, vol. II, p. 432, note by Dr. Führer). It is also called Ahikshetra (*Mahābhārata*, Vana P., ch. 252). In Jaina works, Ahichhatra is said to be the principal town of the country called Jangala which therefore was another name for North Pañchāla (see Weber's *Indische Studien*, xvi, p. 398).