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once included within the limits of the ancient Chedi. I incline there¬ 
fore to look upon Manipur (to the north of Ratanpnr) as tlie original 
capital of Chedi-des and to identify the Suktimati river with the Sakri 
which rises in the hills of the Kawarda State to the west of Lapha.’ 
(Rep. Arch. Surv. IX. pp. 54 and 55). And the title Kulachuri 
or Kalachuri ‘ would seem to have been confined to the Tripuri 
branch of the Haihayas and its ramifications ; while the Manipur 
kings, after the transfer of their capital to Ratanpnr, were known 
as the Ratnavali Haihayas/ (Ibid., p. 57). And again, ‘ as we lenrn 
from the Mahabharata that the capital of Chedi was situated on the 
Suktimati river; and as we know that the Mahanadi flowed through 
the country of Chedi, I am more inclined to accept the Mahanadi as 
the representative of the Suktimati, and to place the capital of Kosala 
[Chedi ?] on its banks.’ (Id , XVII. p. 24 ). 
The notices of Cedi, however, which are found here and there in 
the Maha-bharata and elsewhere shew very plainly that, whatever 
may have been the movements of the Cedi princes in after years, the 
country of Cedi in the Pandavas’ time was very far north of the 
Narmada and Mahanadi. 
Cedi was closely associated with Matsya. King Vasu, who estab¬ 
lished a dynasty in Cedi, had a son called Matsya who became a king 
(M.-bh., Adi-p., Ixiii. 2371-93 ; and Hari-vam 9 a, xxxii. 1804-6), and 
though it is not stated where Matsya reigned, yet it seems reasonable 
to suppose he reigned in Matsya. But putting that aside, it is stated 
positively that an ancient king Sahaja reigned over both the Cedis 
and the Matsyas (Udyoga-p., lxxiii. 2732). Matsya as will be seen 
-was the country south-west of Indra-prastlia or Delhi, and it would 
have been impossible for one king to rule over that district and a 
kingdom on the Narmada, whether the intervening region was peopled 
or covered with forest. This passage demonstrates that Cedi must 
have touched Mats} T a. 
Further the Cedis are often joined with certain other people, 
as if forming a natural group ; thus they are linked in one compound 
with the Matsyas and Karusas (e.g., Bhisma-p., ix. 348; liv. 2242 ; and 
Karna-p., xxx. 1231), and with the Ka^s and Karusas (e.g., Adi-p., cxxiii. 
4796; and Bhisma-p.', cxvii. 5446). Ka^i was of course Benares ; and the 
position of Mafsya and Karusa may be determined here, because Lassen 
lias placed them erroneously in his map (Ind. Alt.), Matsya north of 
Allahabad and Benares, and Karusa in the north of Oudh. 
Brahmavarta was the country between the rivers Saras-vati on 
the north and Drsad-vati on the south and east (Manu II. 17). South 
and east of it lay Brahmarsi-de^a, which comprised Kuru-ksetra, 
