History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.325

v5.c74.t2.325

The extent of Kurukṣetra is said to be five *yojanas* in radius (in Vanaparva, and the Vāmana Purāṇa)¹⁵⁵⁰. A somewhat corrupt verse occurs in the Mahābhārata and some purāṇas¹⁵⁵¹ about the limits of Kurukṣetra viz. the territory between Tarantu and Kārantuka and between Macakruka (image of a *yakṣa*) and the Rāma-hradas (pools made by Paraśurāma)—this is Kurukṣetra, Samantapañcaka and the northern *vedi* of Brahmā. The result is that Kurukṣetra is referred to under various names viz. Brahmasaras, Rāmahrada, Samantapañcaka, Vinaśana, Sannihatī (vide T. Pr. p. 463). For the boundaries of Kurukṣetra, vide Cunningham's A S. R. of India, vol. XIV pp 86-106 where he notes that Kurukṣetra was 30 miles to the south of Ambala and 40 miles to the north of Panipat. In the remote past Kurukṣetra was the centre of all the activities and the culture of the Vedic people. Gradually the Vedic people spread towards the east and south and the country between the Ganges and Jumnā and later on Videha (or Mithilā) became the centres of Indian culture.