Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.193

c9.193

Pañcagaṇa, people located in the northern region 64 Pañcajana, demon from whom Kṛṣṇa obtained his conch-shell (Pāñcajanya) 63 Pañca-Jana, peoples 25 Pañcakarpaṭa, people located in the western region 65 Pañcāla, country and people 15, 17n, 25-27, 71, 89, 91 and n, 108-09; modern Rohilkhand and a part of the Central Doab in U. P. 35n; Southern 91, 99; Northern 72; allied with the Kuru 29; located in the eastern region 64; same as the Pir Panjal valley 108-109 Pañcanada, country and people 95n; located in the western region 65 Pañcanadaka, same as Pañcanada, country and people 95 Pañcanagarī, modern Panchbibi, locality 137 Pañcapura, see Pentapolis, locality 137 Pañcarāmahradāntarā, see Brahmavedi, Kurukṣetra, locality 106 Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa 16n, 28; on the distance between the earth and the sky 10 Panchbibi (Pentapolis), locality 137 Pandaea, daughter and wife of Herakles 35n Paṇḍāra, mountain to the west of the Śitoda lake 46 Pandasa, locality 142 Pāṇḍava, see Pandoouoi, people 128 Pāṇḍava brothers 63, 65 Pandian, same as Pāṇḍya, kingdom 117-18 Pandion (Pāṇḍya), king 123 Pandionoi (Pāṇḍya), people 136 Pandipatna (Kāñcipattana), locality 136 Pandoouoi (Pāṇḍava), people 128 Pāṇḍu, father of the Pāṇḍavas 154 Pāṇḍu, origin of Pāṇḍya 34 Pāṇḍu, people and country 101; also called Pāṇḍya and located in the Punjab-Rajasthan region 109