Tribes in Ancient India c32.55

c32.55

After Rāma, the extensive Kośalan empire is said to have been divided amongst the sons of himself and his three brothers. The sons of the youngest brother, Śatrughna, ruled at Mathurā; the sons of Lakṣmaṇa established two kingdoms in the far north, in the neighbourhood of the Himālayas, while Bharata’s sons founded the cities of Takṣaśilā and Puṣkarāvatī in the Gandhāra country, as the Vāyupurāṇa¹ tells us. The Kośala country proper is said to have been divided into two. In southern Kośala, Kuśa, the elder of the two sons of Rāma, became king, and transferred his capital from Ayodhyā to Kuśasthalī which he built on the Vindhya range.² Lava, the younger, became the ruler of the northern Kośala country and set up his capital at the city of Śarāvatī or Śrāvastī which was still the seat of the Kośala sovereigns in the Buddha’s time.