Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.216

c6.216

Darvābhisāra.—This place is mentioned in the Mahābhārata (VII, 91, 43) which, according to Stein, included the tract of the lower and middle hills lying between the Jhelum and the Chenab. According to some it roughly corresponded to the Punch and Naoshera districts in Kāśmīra and was probably an offshoot of the old kingdom of Kāmboja (Raychaudhuri, P.H.A.I., 4th Ed., p. 200). For further details vide B. C. Law, Indological Studies, Pt. I, pp. 17-18.