Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.360

c10.360

Upaplavya.—It was a city in the kingdom of king Virāṭa wherefrom the Pāṇḍavas transferred themselves on completion of their exile. (*Mahābh.*, IV, 72, 14). It was to this city that Sañjaya, the messenger of the Kurus, was sent by Dhṛtarāṣṭra (*Ibid.*, V, 22, 1). Nīlakaṇṭha, the commentator on the *Mahābhārata*, points out that Upaplavya was a city near Virāṭanagara, but its exact site is uncertain (Nīlakaṇṭha on the *Mahābh.*, IV, 72, 14). It does not appear to have been a capital of the Matsyas, as told in the *Cambridge History of India* (p. 316) but only one of the towns in the Matsya country.