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2. Vy, Mk, Bmd, Mts—कुन्तलाः काशिकोशलाः ; Mts *c* (v.l.)—कुन्तयः काशिकोशलाः; Mbh—कुन्तयः कान्तिकोशलाः. The reading कुन्तयः is supported by Grd, I, 55, 11, quoted at p. 21 n. 5. The Kuntis were a branch of the Yādava tribe living apparently not far from the Mathurā region. The Kāsis lived about Vārāṇasi (Binaras). This Kosala is Uttara-Kosala with its capital at Ayodhyā (in the Fyzabad Dist.). See Raychaudhuri, *op. cit.*, pp. 8 ff., 84 ff.