The Geography Of Mahabharata Janapadas | Jijith Nadumuri Ravi |

School education ensures us to have a mental picture of India map and we are capable of locating where is Punjab or Tamil Nadu. Yet we do not have a mental picture of where are those janapadas (kingdoms) mentioned in our Veda, Ithiāsa, Purāanas are located. An ordinary person is unable to locate where is Pānchala the kingdom of Pānchali or where is Gāndhara, the kingdom of Gāndhari. Yet there is enough information to create a digital map of Bhāratavarsha in our ancient texts.
This talk is about familiarizing the reader to recognize the janapadas mentioned in the Mahābhārata both the popular ones like Kuru, Pānchāla and rare references of Chīna, Darada and Kāmboja.
About Speaker: -
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi is the founder of the Website AncientVoice which contains 23500 pages on Mahabharata, Ramayana, the four Vedas and Vishnu Purana. It contains ancient India maps, analysis articles, lineage maps, the full text of English translation of these texts in Wikified form with 7000 plus nouns analysed creating huge information networks of Indic texts.
The author additionally hosts websites like Nalanda, Takshasila and RecentVoice, focusing on Greek, Avestan and Tamil literature. He was a former ISRO scientist (2001-2006) and an artist who loves to paint events from Mahabharata.
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0:00
00:52 Speaker’s profile
1:51 Introduction to Mahabharat
7:10 Bharat Varsha Kingdom Map - Northern Kingdoms
13:44 Bharat Varsha Kingdom Map - Southern Kingdoms
15:11 Bharat Varsha Maps - city level resolution
20:37 Chronology of different kingdoms
22:31 Bharat Varsha Geography - mountains, rivers, forests, lakes and geographical regions
27:08 The globe as island Sudarsana
28:59 The six mountain ranges and seven regions (Varshas)
32:57 The travel narratives - the emergence of Bharat as a union
36:16 Political polarizations reflecting in the geography
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“India is the only major civilizational country where you are systematically taught to hate your heritage and glorify the invaders who came to destroy it. And this [absurdity] is called ‘secularism’."

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Thanks to all Indian Voters voting in KHAANGRESS blindly !

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Because Congress-Communists-Leftists ruling MahaBharat since 1940s are in reality Bastards of East India Company, Lord Macaulay & Christian Missionaries..

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Very true.

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I suppose you watched the whole video, and yet you speak of invaders? I think this is a bigger problem than the absurdity of AIT.

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So basically your statement is just repeated tape, of newly formed wanna be intelectual far right, that got nothing original of their own, but want a place in history, which they never belonged. It's really getting irritating now, how same statement is repeated a 1000 times, but when asked what your version of history is, they get quite. Also hypocrisy of right is very evident, you hate muslim rule of 600 years, where india was regarded as one of the richest, have 24% of global economy. But you people remain absolutely silent about british rule , which exploited india and reduced it to 2% of global economy. Reason of Hypocracy is very simple. Far right came to india due to british divide and rule policy, so basically british chale gaye but apne bande chor gaye. And you people got to swear on indian secular idea, which flows in veins of our Holy Land. Our ancestors were used to be liberal, secular only but now it has become a swear world in mouth of some illiterate far right gawar, who can't even speak one word of originality. What a shame.

[@MyPunksta]

Thanks for fullfilling my childhood fantasy of the political map of Bharat during Mahabharata. It gives me joy nothing else can give.

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Such a skilled man, the government must fund such people like him who do a great service to our nation.

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it is communal proposal ! blasphemy! what you are talking about ?

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Praveen mohan

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My god brilliant sir.. this has long been an area where I was also curious.

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This entire topic is exciting

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Incredible work, @jijith_nr! I wish MHRD or Ministry of Culture would sponsor long-term research into our epics with a multidisciplinary approach. Bring together scientists, archaeologists, hydrologists, astronomers, Sanskritists, artists and so on to research every aspect and produce multiple volumes of high quality books, documentaries etc. There is no death of talent within India to work on such mega projects, and the dividends would be huge. We owe it to our Rishis.

[@alex-sv8ru]

I would love for that to happen, but certain people in our society will pounce on this opportunity to call it a waste of time and money on 'pseudo-history'.

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A multi-talented person

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Im excited to watch this one

[@uncertaincat]

Very rare study thanks for sharing this seminal work

[@soolaba]

Much respect to Jijith Nadumuri Ravi for taking the Mahabharata Epic as the actual History, Geography, Politics and Dharma of Ancient India / Bharata. Congratulations! Because fractal reiteration is used by Sri Bhagavan for creating both spiritual and material worlds, the lotus structure of our Earth resembles the lotus structure of the heavenly island Jambudvipa, and the heavenly plane of Bhu-mandala. Because of this, every attempt to disregard the details of Mahabharata and all Puranas regarding the exotic-heavenly regions (varshas) and their inhabitants (Gandharvas, Rakshasas, Siddhas, Nagas & Devatas) and to label them as ordinary parts of Earth is most certainly a short-coming in this presentation. According to all Puranas, the entire Earth is Karma-Bhumi, and is called Bharata-varsa after the capital territory of Bharata-varsa, often called 'Greater India' or 'Bharata-Khanda' or 'Punya-Bhumi'. The entire Earth, named after its famous Bharata-varsa, is the only realm that undergoes the Cycle of Yugas, the Generation of Karma, and the Gateway to Liberation. The rest of Jambudvipa and Meru are not at all restricted in this way like the Earth of our experience. Please visit my webpage on Puranic Geography for more information .... soolaba.wordpress.com/puranic-geography/

[@ashwaryp]

All this information needs to be compiled in a book with proper coloured maps. The lecture was quite enlightening, i had seen the map before but today i saw the person who made it.

[@enjoyparents]

Please please put this in BOOK FORM. THIS STUDY N UR BOOK ( WHEN U WRITE IT)SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO BE THE BOOK IN CURRICULUM.

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Brahmaputra is still widely called Lohit/Luit in Assam and NE.

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I studied this while studying Law, detailed but i didnt know the real geography involved, Thank you for this knowledge My ancestors were indians, so im very proud of this knowledge.. eventhough i no longer practice Hindu Peace🙏😘

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Can we talk pls

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Practicing hinduism is not a must. But you should go through the ideas, you don't need to make this public, just go through them. I found a lot of free ideas , tolerance , and ideas that can improve our life. Love from Tripura.

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When Bharat happened to be Mahabharat ..there were none of sects available today

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Great work. So exciting just to listen to this. We all should do our part to encourage such research

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Please put all your findings with in a text...best option write a book.

[@vimalkantdave1060]

Wonderful exposition. Very important contribution. Should be made available to larger scientific community. Adds further proof to our इतिहास . Congratulations.

[@raghukpathi11]

Excellent presentation. I had a similar map in mind when I hear mahabharath in telugu from Chaganti garu and Garikapati garu. This presentation reconfirms my assumptions. Thank you Jijith

[@nithyanandita3253]

I am blown by this talk - amazing research. Just to know the extent of MahaBharat and how it has shrunk has left me speechless.

[@sonivinod1984]

Wow, its a real eye opener, every indian should view this

[@jothikrishna36]

So fascinating... Thank you.

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No words to describe the work. Excellent, magnificent

[@mrcoolcanon]

I am ready to buy your book. This is way better than any Detective or horror books.

[@anichess89]

Simply amazing! Currently reading Mahabharat 2nd book had many questions about the locations. Thank you so much!

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Thanks for so much detailed information on the names of the cities of India with reference to the mahabharat!!! The great historical text of ancient Bharatvarsh !!!

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What an interesting topic! Sir, your research is commendable. Such talks need to go viral! Should reach as many Indians as possible. Thank you Srijan for bringing out this topic.

[@Indisword]

Many Many thank you Mr.Jijith. This is very useful for our and future generations to have sence of belonging.

[@iagreewithyou4328]

Great work. We have to build on this in the future. I think an organization should be formed to bring together skeptics, critics and supporters of with a single person or a decision making body that based on arguments provided declares what is most appropriate. Somewhat like a court hearing. Nowadays history is only based on books of those who are popular and more invested in spreading their separatism and false history. There should be an organization that forms a platform for discussion. Much like the UN.

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Simply outstanding. Thank you very much for your sharing.

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All makes sense to your research on epic #Mahabharatt !! Excellent work kind of genuine genius !

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Amazing work sir. Great job done. Kudos to you. On your research work many more scholars can work further to narrate mahabharta as history of India.

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Excellent overview...this is what Indian scholars should have done ages ago instead of the changing our history to support Western narrative.

[@sribatshapradhan3000]

Kudos , fabulous work.

[@namdevshinde4383]

Really exciting and looking for same from many days 😊 thanku sir

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Wow great research, we need more such research

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Great work

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Good heavens,didn't know there were so many...

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It’s amazing how he has done all this singlehandedly. Sashtang 🙏🏼 to him. We need friends to team up and work on such things, it will be life well spent.

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Good work..jayamudareyet

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अद्भुत

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Great.... superb.....

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Mind blowing, incredible work 🙏

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You have dinner a tremendous job... Congrats

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Nice work with impressive graphics.

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Excellent...

[@suebarker1689]

Fantastic basic map of the then India. Software technology can make it much more modern. It is good that Indic studies is shifting from Aryan Dravidian talk to specialisation. Indic studies can only progress with super-specializing subjects. Any way this is a wonderful work womenspowerook.org 's view

[@DrReemaPadmakumar]

Nice information and excellent presentation... Rocking performance dear Jijith son...👌

[@JijithNadumuriRavi]

Thank You!

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Great work, thanks a lot

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Thank you brother for your research

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Beautiful. Excellent.

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Superb invasion congratulations sir

[@1radhamadhav]

very very thanks to JN Ravi Sir

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Amazing details brother. Fantastic analysis and research 😊

[@ranjitks2]

Please publish this valuable information in book form, this will benefit any one reading Mahabharata.this is our history our past

[@highsparrow1347]

have you taken help from Panini Vyakarana and related commentaries like Kashika? It has many Sutras like एङ् प्राचां देशे in which Kashika enlists many Deshas of the East as examples.

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Great work

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Amazing 👏🏻👏🏻

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Incredible work,

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Superb Superb Superb

[@arjun1951]

River Saraswati mention is there in Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kaanda.

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I have been watching this for 5 minutes. So far so good. He mantioned KRISHNA and ARJUNA and he mantioned BHARATA .

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Excellent work.

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please write a book about this so that it can we preserved for long.

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Superb...

[@malmalhi007]

interesting talk.. ty

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यद्हास्ति तदन्यत्र यन्नेहास्ति न तत् क्वचित्।

[@kashni]

Such a brilliant work, ideally this work needs to be sponsored by government and the country, but he did so much work out of his passion, just imagine if he is given a team of 100 with a budget , which is what any western country would have done.. Hope this work is continued and it reaches to the text books of the primary schools and this history should be the 10m question in our SSC, not mughal or british

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gr8!

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Excellent!!

[@davemalhotra6411]

Probably the word 'research' came from Sanskrit word 'rishi'. That is what you are, a modern day Rishi. Now a small request, please use cane or some kind of a pointer to pinpoint the locations of importance. Thanks.

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dave malhotra research comes from Search ->> Re-Search

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[@gargsamyt]

This is great work Jijith Ji. Please coordinate your efforts with Aditya Satsangi, who has also done work in mapping the Geography of Mbh and Ramayana. Also, Nilesh Oak & Rupa Bhaty have used multi-disciplinary evidence from Astronomy, Geology, Hydrology etc. to derive the timelines of both Ramayana and Mahabharata.

[@Kaity099]

Please put your research and knowledge in writing in book form. Please do sir.

[@luckystar4767]

All this should be taught in our history

[@anandrajm1]

Amazing research and dedication. Kudos to the presenter!!

[@sukalpas3636]

Sir, could you work on locating submerged kingdoms or cities along the line of coast.

[@anupamavuppala9696]

Amazing , I don’t have enough vocabulary for my appreciation to you sir , it’s commendable effort sir , I’m not educated in these research & studies but love to participate in these studies to help u guys , given a chance , Plz give me a chance if possible, tnq

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Please make the Vimana after doing extensive research on Puranas Mahabharata Ramayana.

[@taruntripathi]

Great job! Keep it up.

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[@so-much-to-learn]

Reflected in the moon. Is very interesting.

[@rishiyogil.n.7222]

Amazing Work ... great contribution to society ....What is Name of Hyderabad at that time Sir... Thanks

[@bravenangeli]

I too alwez wanted to knw d exact locations.. Wow.. Sir, what an effort...I salute you🙏

[@callarpit1]

Great work is it possible to date when Mahabharata actually occured? Is it 5500 yrs ago?

[@xenastutorials58]

Nal sarovar is in Gujrat ...huge lake today is part of nal Raja nishad rajya...it still exist with story of nal damayanti

[@vikasnamdev7651]

Sir ye video hindi main bhi uplabdh hai ???

[@vishnuprasad3757]

We need to identify each city and area to rename them to their original names and history of that place should be taught to the locals so that we will be connected to our roots

[@gopalinc]

Why do you add 'a' at the end of name and place, like निषादा, संस्कृता, चोला, द्रविड़ा, etc.

[@akshaydevdattamalvankar]

Jai Shree Ram 💪🏽🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@sribatshapradhan3000]

Please give a tabular text form correlating old names and current names

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He is isro scientist 👌👌👌

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Great history

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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@purugoodman]

Examining archeological and " rituals" of those days, it is wise to conclude that Current day Ajerbaijan ( parts around Caspain Sea), Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,Pakistanand parts till Narmada were the geographies ( and multiple kings and their descendants) that were involved in the times during Mahabharat days.

[@karthikbharadwaj9949]

15:30 Why is Karnata kingdom dipicted in Balochistan beside the river Sindhu. Can any one clarify it.....

[@JayInMelbourne]

Hi, Very interesting talk, at times it was hard to follow because the map was not on display instead the camera was focusing on the scientist.

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✌️🙏🙏🙏🙏🇮🇳

[@-vajradatta-8359]

Excellent presentation of information, data and outstanding work on the website. I'm reading your information about Arjuna's travel in Pragjyotisha which modern day Assam and Pragjyotishpura, modern day Guwahati and it is filling in some gaps. Few know of the participation of Assam in the Mahabharata.

[@arpitpatra]

Where can i get the pdf of this

[@PankajKumar-yz2vo]

Geography is same from that time?

[@venkateswararaotekumalla4660]

In those days most of the time, the elder daughter of the kingdom use to call with the kingdom name. Example: Kousalya is daughter of kosala rajya, kaikeyi of kekaya rajya, Vydehi of videha rajya, Panchali of panchala rajya, Kunthi of Kuntala rajya, Madri from Madra rajya, Gandhari of Gandhara rajya ans so on. In fact, according to maha bharat, dhrutarashtra marry gandhari with her 10 sister.