Pragjyotisha kingdom

Scriptures

All early references do not locate Pragjyotisha in Northeast India. The first mentions of this kingdom are found in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, in sections not written much earlier than the first century. In the Kishkindha Kanda of the former, Pragjyotisha is placed in the west near Mount Varaha on the sea. In Aswamedha-Parva of the latter, Arjuna defeated Vajradatta of Pragjyotisha in a three-day battle near Punjab in the Lower Indus Valley; the Harivamsa Parva features multiple mentions as well. The kingdom was contemporary of Bana kingdom.