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Panchala (IAST: Pañcāla) was an ancient kingdom of northern India, located in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab of the Upper Gangetic plain which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During Late Vedic times (c. 1100–500 BCE), it was one of the most powerful states of ancient India , closely allied with the Kuru Kingdom . [ 3 ]
The kingdom of the Magadhas roughly corresponded to the modern districts of Patna and Gaya in southern Bihar and parts of Bengal in the east. The capital city of Pataliputra was bound in the north by the river Ganges, in the east by the river Champa, in the south by the Vindhya mountains and in the west by the river Sona.
During the ancient Vedic period, it was the capital city of the Panchala Kingdom during the reign of king Vajrayudha. [2] [3] In the medieval era, it formed the core of the Kingdom of Kannauj and was ruled by multiple successive royal families. It was also known as Mahodaya during the time of Mihira Bhoja. [4]
The PGW Culture probably corresponds to the middle and late Vedic period, i.e., the Kuru-Panchala kingdom, the first large state in the Indian subcontinent after the decline of the Indus Valley civilisation.
Ahichchhatra or Ahikhet (Sanskrit: अहिच्छत्र, IAST: Ahicchatra) or Ahikshetra (Sanskrit: अहिक्षेत्र, IAST: Ahikṣetra), near the modern Ramnagar village in Aonla tehsil, Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh, India, was the ancient capital of Northern Panchala, a northern Indian kingdom mentioned in the ...
Panchala Kingdom may refer to: the historical Panchala kingdom in ancient India Panchala Kingdom (Mahabharata) , a fictionalization of the historical kingdom in the Sanskrit epic
Historically, Bareilly region was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Uttara-Panchala (Northern Panchala). The ancient fortress city of Ahicchattra in Bareilly served as a seat of the influential Empire. The Kingdom occupied the country (region) to the east of the Kuru Kingdom, i.e. between the upper Himalayas and the river Ganges. The ...
Southern Panchala kingdom or Panchala-proper, one of the historical mahajanapadas of ancient India (c. 6th to 4th centuries BC), [1] had Kampilya city as its capital. This kingdom extended from the Ganga River to the river Charmanwati. It was annexed into the Nanda Empire during the reign of Mahapadma Nanda. [2]