Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c5.s5.15

c5.s5.15

Besides the above, some localities such as those lying on the borders of Kurukṣetra and Āryāvarta have already been mentioned. Khāṇḍava lying on the boundary of Kurukṣetra is no doubt the forest of that name mentioned in the *Mahābhārata*. The Puranic tradition locates the Khāṇḍava forest on the river Aśvarathā or the Yamunā and sometimes regards the Khāṇḍava-prastha as identical with Indra-prastha near Delhi, though Khāṇḍava is supposed to have extended from modern Bulandshahr to Saharanpur.¹⁰⁷ But, as we have seen, Khāṇḍava was to the south of Kurukṣetra according to the *Taittirīya Āraṇyaka*.