Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.52

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Ahicchatra.—It was the capital of northern Pañcāla (*Mahābhārata*, Ādiparva, Ch. 140; cf. Rapson, *Ancient India*, p. 167). The river Bhāgīrathī formed the dividing line between the northern and southern Pañcāla. The Vedic texts refer to an eastern and western division of the country (*Vedic Index*, I, 469). Patañjali refers to it in his *Mahābhāṣya* (II, p. 233, Kielhorn's ed.). The *Yoginitantra* mentions it (2/4, pp. 128-129). According to the *Divyāvadāna* (p. 435) the capital of northern Pañcāla was Hastināpura, but the Kumbhakāra Jātaka (Cowell, *Jātaka*, III, 230) states that the capital of northern Pañcāla was Kampillanagara.