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leagues in circuit. Hastinapura (Pali Hatthipura), known, in earlier times as Āsandivat, appears to have been the earlier capital. On this point Dr. Raychaudhuri observes: The evidence of the Vedic texts and that of the Purāņas can be reconciled if we assume that, after the death of Janamejaya, the Kuru kingdom was split up into several parts. One part, which had its capital at Hastināpura, was ruled by the direct descendants of Janamojaya himself. Another part was ruled by the descendants of his brother Kakşasena. The junior branch probably resided at Indraprastha or Indapatta .... which probably continued to be the seat of kings claiming to belong to the Yudhițghilagotta (Yudhişthiragotra), long after the destruction of Hastināpura, and the removal of the elder line of Kuru kings to Kausāmbi'.2 It is, however, difficult to reconcile such an assumption as this with the Jāteka tradition, according to which, Ajjuna or Dhanañjaya Koravya of the stock of Yudhitthila, with Vidhurapanạita as his wise counsellor, reigned in the Kuru country when its capital was at Indapatta.8 On the other hand, the Kuņāla Jätaka preserves a tradition of the five Pāņdave brothers (Pandurājaputta), Ajjuna,
1 Apudāna, u, p. 369. 2 kayohaudhuri, op. cit., 4th ed., pp. 37-38. 8 Jätaka, v, p.67f.; vi, p. 266.
