Kauravas Army Camps
Duryodhana had a force which numbered eleven Akshauhinis bristling with banners. There was no space in the city of Hastinapura even for the principal leaders of Duryodhana’s army. For this reason the land of the five rivers (Punjab), and the whole of the region called Kurujangala (Delhi and eastern Hariyana), and the forest of Rohitaka (Rohtak district in Hariyana) which was uniformly wild, and Ahichatra and Kalakuta (both in Northern Panchala (i.e. Uttara-Panchala viz Uttarakhand), and the banks of the Ganges, and Varana, and Vatadhana, and the hill tracts on the border of the Yamuna—the whole of this extensive tract—full of abundant corn and wealth, was entirely overrun with the army of the Kauravas, to battle in the Kurukshetra War. (5,19).
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