Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.t1.1

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The Kuru kingdom, as known to the Jātakas,⁷ had an extent of three hundred leagues. Its capital was Indapatta,⁸ (modern Indrapat near Delhi) which is sometimes said to have extended over seven leagues.⁹ The reigning dynasty belonged to the Yudhiṭṭhila gotta, i.e., the family of Yudhiṣṭhira,¹⁰ a fact which shows that the Jātakas are familiar only with the events that occurred after the Great war, one of which was the inclusion of the Pāṇḍavas in the famous Kuru line.¹¹ The date of the Bhārata war is still a matter of controversy. But between the two plausible extremes of 15th century B. C.¹ and the 10th century B. C.,² we may take the 12th century B. C. as the via media.³