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GEOGRAPHY
, 35 consisted of these three parts: Kurujāngala, the Kuru-land proper and Kuruksetra. According to Pali tradition, the people originally coming froin Uttarakuru, colonised it, whence the name Kuru. In the Mahābhārata (i, 109.10) it is aptly called Dakşiņakuru, vying as it did with Uttarakuru in its glory, splendour, prosperity and righteousness. The Kurujāngala, as its name implies, was the jungle tract of the Kuru-land which extended as far as the Kāmyaka , forest. There is a tradition to the effect that the kingdom of Uttarapañcāla was founded in this very part of Kuru, in which case it must have stood on the left bank of the Bhāgirathi Gangā. It is, therefore, not astonishing at all that in the Somanassa Jātaka Uttarapancala finds mention as a city in the Kururattha. The kingdom proper had Hastinapura for its capital,) Indapatta (Indraprastha) near modern Delhi, according to the Jātakas. The kingdom was three hundred leagues in extent, and its capital seven hundred leagues in circumference, The Taittirīya Aranyaka locates Kurukşetra to the north of Khăņdava, to the south of the Tūrghna and to the east of the Pariņa, while the Great Epic definitely places it to the south
2. Jätaka, iv, p. 444.
1 Mahabharata, 1, 108 1. 8 Drvyāvadāna, p. 436. 4,5 Jataka, v, pp. 57, 484, vi, p. 256. 6 Vedic Inder, 1, p 169f.
