Tribes in Ancient India c8.20

c8.20

¹ *Mbh.*, *Ādiparvan*, Chap. 140. Rapson (*Ancient India*, p. 167) says: ‘In history, they (i.e. the Pañcālas) are sometimes divided into two kingdoms—South Pañcāla, the country between the Jumna and Ganges to the east and south-east of the Kurus and Śūrasenas, and North Pañcāla, districts of the United Provinces lying east of the Ganges and north-west of the Province of Oudh . . .’ Cunningham (*Ancient Geography*, p. 360) says: ‘The great kingdom of Pañcāla extended from the Himalaya mountains to the Chambal river’.