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KINGS AND PEOPLES by itself. Like the Jātakas, the Divyāvadāna and the Mahābhārata speak of the two divisions of their realm. According to the Kumbhakara Jätaka, when king Dummukha, a contemporary of king Naggaji of Gandhāra, reigned in Uttarapañcāla, its capital was Kampilla (Sk. Kāmpilya),+ while according to the Divyāvadāna (p. 435), at one time its capital was Hastinapura, the well-known chief city of the Kurus. The Mahābhārata, on the other hand, definitely mentions Kāmpilya as the capital of Dakşiņapañcāla, and Ahicchatrā or Chatravati as that of the Uttara. According to the Great Epic, the division of the Pañcāla kingdom into Northern and Southern was effected in fulfilment of a treaty between the king of Pañcāla and that of Kuru, after the former had been snatched away by the latter. The fact, however, seems to be that the two peoples were on a state of war with each other from time to time, at one time the Pancālas annexing a portion of the Kuru country to their realm, and at another, the Kurus establishing their supremacy over the northern division of Pancāla. At all events, the Somanassa Jataka definitely states that once upon a timer Uttarapancāla was included in the Kuru realm.
1 Játaka, m, 379. 2 Law, Geography, p. 18. 8 Jätaka, wy, p. 444.