Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s2.4

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2. Pāñcāla—capital of the Northern Pāñcāla country at Ahicchatra (modern Ramnagar in the Bareilly District, U.P.) and that of Southern Pāñcāla at Kāmpilya (modern Kampil in the Furrukhabad District, U.P.). Early medieval kings, who had their capital at Kānyakubja (e.g. king Vajrāyudha mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s Karpūramañjarī), were sometimes represented as lords of the Pāñcāla country. As we shall see below, a late medieval work locates Pāñcāla in the present West Pakistan (cf. the name of the Pir Panjal range).