Tribes in Ancient India c8.51

c8.51

Pañcāla continued to be one of the great and powerful countries of Northern India, down to the time when the Buddha lived. The Aṅguttara Nikāya mentions it as one of the sixteen mahājanapadas of ‘Jambudīpa’, having an abundance of the seven kinds of gems, etc.³ Pañcāla had a large army consisting of foot-soldiers, men skilful in fight and in the use of steel weapons.⁴