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he alone seems to have deserved the epithet of Koravya.1
It seems that the next king in the line of Ajjuna was Sutasoma who is introduced as the son of king Koravya of the Kuru realm and who became so very fond of eating human flesh that he was compelled at last to abdicate his throne and walk out of his realm.
When the Kuru country included in it Uttarapañcala, a king by the name of Renu reigned in the city of Uttarapancāla, and Prince Somanassa was his son.
There was a time when Kuru, Pañcāla and Kekaya were three of the most powerful kingdoms' in Jambudvīpa. But in the Buddha's time the Kuru country was being ruled only by a titular chieftain called Koravya, and evidently had very little political importance of its own. The people of Kuru continued nevertheless to enjoy their ancient reputation for deep wisdom and sound health
The Pañoālas founded a kingdom contiguous to that of the Kurus. The Pancāla country was divided by the Ganges into two parts, Uttara and Dakkhiņa, each forming a kingdom 1 Jataka, iv, p. 361. * Ibid., V, p. 457f. 3 Ibid., iv, p. 444. 4 Ibid., ü, p. 214. 5 Majjhima, ü, p. 68. Paparcasudini, i, p. 184.
