Tribes in Ancient India c7.17

c7.17

We have seen that the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa speaks of the country of the Kuru-Pañcālas as belonging to the ‘dhruvā madhyamā dik’, i.e., to what is known in later literature as the Madhyadeśa or middle country. Prof. Rapson points out that the territories occupied by the Kurus extended to the East far beyond the limits of Kurukṣetra. The Kurus must have occupied the northern portion of the Doab, or the region between the Jumna and the Ganges, having as their neighbours on the east the North Pañcālas, and on the south, the South Pañcālas, who held the rest of the Doab as far as the land of the Vatsas, the corner where the two rivers meet at Prayāga (Allahabad).²