Mahabharata and Major Jananpadas
Janpadas
- Rigveda – himachal as himvant
- Pandavas spent maximum time of exile in upper areas of himachal.
- Bhima married to hidimba during his exile
- Susharma chandra fought with pandava
- Kashmir , trigart gave tax to yudhisther
- Kulinds rulers were under pandava
Four jananpadas
- Trigart
- Audumbaras
- Kulut
- Kulind
Audumbras
- Ancestors of vishwamitra related to kaushiki gautra
- We received the coins from areas of kangra , pathankot ,gurdaspur and hoshiarpur
- They were devoted to shiva
- Panini ganpath had detailed about audumbras
- Becouse of audumber tree it is called as audumbras
- The coins of audumbras had excavated mahadevta word in brahmi and kharoshthi scripts which symbolised Mahadeva
- Coins had trishul carved in it and copper and silver coins
- Devoted to shiva and gaddis tribe of chamba resembled audumbras
Trigart
- Founded by bhumi chand
- Susharma was 231 generation king
- Susharma supported kaurvas during mahabharat war and defeated matsya ruler virat
- Part of ravi , satluj and beas
- Built kangra fort and nagarkot as capital
- 6 group states of kanishak as part of trigart
- Kaurav, jalmani,janki , brahmguptaare part of trigart
- Ayudhjivi sangh by panini which means to survive with the support of wars
- Panini ashtdhyayi, rajtarangini kalhan vishnu puran had description about trigart
Kulut
- Upper areas of beas
- Description in ramayan , brihatsamhita ,markanday purans , mudrarakshas
- Oldest capital naggar found in description of panini katrevaadi ganga
- Coin of king viryas of 100Ad been found in kullu
- Written in prakarit and kharosthi
- Founded by bihimgan pal
- Kulinds
- Kulinds were annexed by Arjun
- Part of yamuna , beas , satluj and in areas of sirmaur, shimla, ambala
- Silver coin of kulinds had excavated the name of king amoghbhuti
- Kalindi was the old name of yamuna
- Kulind subahu gave presents to yudhister
