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Lord Mahāvira and His Times
states of which Indraprastha and Ishukāra were apparently the most important. "Kings” are mentioned as late as the time of the Buddha when one of them paid a visit to Ratthapāla, son of a Kuru magnate, who had become a disciple of the Śākya Sage. PAÑCHĀLA
Pañchala roughly corresponds to the modern Badaun, Farrukhabad, and the adjoining districts of the Uttar Pradesh. In very early times, this country was divided into northern or Uttara-Pañchāla and southern or Dakshina-Pañchāla. The Northern Pañchāla had its capital at Ahichchhatra (identificd with modern Rāmnagar in the Bareilly district) while Southern Pañchāla had its capital at Kāmpilya. i.e. Kampil in the Farrukhābad District.
The history of Panchāla from the death of Pravāhaņa Jaivali to the time of Bimbisāra of Magadha is obscure. A great Panchāla king named Chulani Brahimadatta is mentioned in the saha-Ummagga Jātaka', the Uttarādhyayana Sūtra, the Swapnavāsavadatta, and the Rāmāyana.4 In the Uttarādhyajanasūtra, Brahmadatta is styled a universal monarch. The story of this king is, however, essentially legendary, and littlc rcliance can therefore be placed on it.
The Uttarādhyayana Sūtra mentions a king of Kāmpilya named Sañjaya who gave up his kingly power and adopted the faith of the Jinas.5 It is difficult to assign any definitc date to this ruler. It seems that in the sixth century B.C., the Panchālas like others established a Samgha form of Government of the Rāja-sabd-opajivin type and its lcaders assumed the titlc of Rājās. One of those Rājās was apparently the maternal grandfather of Viśākha Pañchālīputra, a disciplc of the Buddha.
1. Ja, No. 546 .. SBE, XLV, 57-61. 3. det v, 4. Romājara, I. 32. 5. SBE, XLV, 30-82. 6. DPP.X, II, 10S.
