Tribes in Ancient India c30.6

c30.6

But notwithstanding the celebrity of the Niṣadha country as the kingdom of Nala, it is difficult to ascertain exactly where it was situated. It is, perhaps, permissible to conjecture that it was not very far from Vidarbha, the country of Nala’s queen, Damayantī. From the directions given by Nala to Damayantī, Wilson thinks⁴ that it was near the Vindhyas and Payoṣṇī river, and that it was near the roads leading from it across the Ṛkṣa mountain to Avanti and the south, as well as to Vidarbha and to Kośala. Lassen places Niṣadha, the kingdom of Nala, along the Satpura hills to the north-west of Berar. Burgess also places it to the south of Malwa.⁵