Brahmavarta : the vast land (including the region later known as Kurukshetra) that in the Vedic times lay between the sacred rivers Saraswati & Drishdāwati.
... 38 Biridaswa, 32, 33 Boghaz-keui, 2, 36 Bollensen, 41, 114 Brahma, Brahman, Brahmand, 120 Brāhmaṇas, 108 Brahmavada, i, ii Brahmavarta, 16 Brahmins, 114 Brihaspati, 81, 104, 121, 133 "bugash", 35 Bull-worship, 38, 42 Burrow, T., 50fn., 130, 131, 132, 133, 135fn. Buxton, 21 ...
... the best intermediary between the Kurus for he evidently desired to try conciliation first, before resorting to threats. The choice of the Purohita was that of King Drupada and the leaders of the Brahmavarta nations who desired to break the supremacy among them of the Kurus. Page 348 This Canto is in the very finest & most characteristic style of Vyasa; precise, simple & hardy in phrasing ...
... the Punjab, but a larger part refers to the strife of the elements, thunder and lightning, rain bursting from the clouds and mountains, which are not seen in the Punjab, but in the region called Brahmavarta watered by the Sarasvati, the Drshadvatl and the Apaya, where the bulk of the Rigveda must have been composed." 28 Literary evidence, on which the invasion-theory relies for the notion ...
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