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रज्जु सो तउ अणिहु खलु अकयकज्जु। जंपइ पोयणपुरवइहिं पक्खु पडिगाहिवि थिउ मंडलु असंखु XIV 1, 7-8. The same idea is conveyed by the speech of Anantapāla, when he offers to the King Bhuvāla his own views on the difficult situation. जइ कच्छाहिवइ पइठ्ठ इत्यु ता अने केणवि गगण कित्थु। अह कच्छाहिउ संवरिवि थक्कु तो हम्मई परचकेण
Il XIII 7, 8-9. The suggestion of Jacobi,1° based upon the alternative form Kacchava that hereby Kashmir is meant, is really genial. For, Kashmir was in old days called Kāsyapadvipa. 2° But is the position of the king of Kashmir so strategically important ? From the third Kadavaka of the thirteenth Sandhi, we learn from Citrānga, Sindhupati's son, that while he is delivering Poyaņapurapati's message to the Kuru King, the son of Poyanapati has already entered the Pañcaladeśa with a large army, jatoate aer afar XIII 4, 3. It is after this that Anantapāla tenders his advice that they should wait and see, until the intentions of Kacchahiyai are definitely known; 894 34€3ET Hey all. XIII 7, 7. It is also after this that Bhavisatta proposes to go and attack Kacchāhiva. Possibly therefore, the Kacchas or Kacchavas lay on the borderland'-literal meaning of kaccha-between the plains of the Punjab and Northern U. P., and the lower Himalayan ranges. From the rapid march of events, the distance between Gayaura and Kaccha country can not be supposed to be very great, nor the communication between the two difficult.
There are the five Sāmantas mentioned twice thus:-fafoofa qayag EAGL fatty fogh for IFTI Targ arhaic etc. XIV 3, 9; and at 9699afta franquiqaraditi qafas afic etc. XIV 13,1. The two mountain kings are perhaps to be identified with Simhauramallu and Kantiuranāhu, mentioned in XIV 2, 6 and 7. The two towns may be those referred to by Jacobi as being in the Salt-range and Nepal respectively. "I There is a Khasapahāņao-chief of the Khaśas mentioned in Tagay sag CF9ET07341 XIII 6, 2. Pavyayaghaņu may be his name, or only an adjective, but the fact remains that as lord of the Khaśas he is also a Pavvayanarinda. He is spoken of as a 'Mandalavai' and must have been reckoned among the five Samantas. He was one of those who were present at the court of Bhuvāla, when Citrānga delivered his message; the former also gave his advice.
From तिसहं संचल्लिय भडमईद पंचालमिच्छकच्छवनरिन्द। पिहमइहरिवाहणलोजङः अत्र वि नरवइ जे for 3759 XIV 17,9-10 one would like to think the Pañcālas, Macchas and Kacchas had their kings" in Pihumai, Harivāhaņa and Lohajangha respectively. But on close examination this view would be found untenable. Lohajangha, for instance, can not be the lord of Kaccha, for he was present in the Council . 19 Op. Cit. Introduction, p. 15.
30 See Mahabharata Jambūkhandanirmanaparva.
21 But the latter is more likely Kotwal, 20 miles North of Gwalior, according to Cunningham. 1722 Jacobi, Op. Cit. Introductior p. 15 actually identifies them thus.
