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90 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
India who evidently founded two territories, one in Uttarapatha and the other in Mahiņsakarattha. In the Purāņas they are mentioned as one of the three septs of the family of Anu, son of Yayāti, the other two being represented by the Usinaras and the Madras. According to the Rāmāyana, the Kekayas of Uttarapatha settled down in a territory between the Vipāsā, (Beas) and the kingdom of Gandharva or Gandhāra. Their capital was Rājagrha or Girivraja which is identified by Cunningham with Girják or Jalalpur on the Jhelum. The name of their capital is not met with in the Vedic texts. According to the Jātaka tradition, the kingdom and capital of the Kekayas were named Kekaka after them, their capital ranking among the three principal cities in Jambudipa, the other two being Uttarapancāla and Indapatta. The Sarabhanga and Sankicca Jătakas preserve the tradition of Ajjuna, a very powerful but wicked king of the Kekayas in the Mahimsakarattha. It is probable that the Kekaya kings mentioned in some of the Amarāvati and Nāgärjunikonda inscriptions were descendants of the Kekayas who founded a kingdom
1 Matsya, 48.10–20, Väyu, 99.12–23; Raychaudhur, op. cit., 4th ed., p. 53.
2 Rāmāyana, 1), 67.7, 1, 68.22. : Jataka, u, p. 213. * Ibid.. v.con. 146. 273.
