Trigarta Kingdom
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Trigarta was a kingdom near the Kuru kingdom. The kingdom roughly forms the modern day Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh, India. Trigarta kings were allies of Duryodhana and enemies of Pandavas and Viratas. They attacked the Virata Kingdom aided by the Kurus to steal cattle from there. The Pandavas living there in anonymity helped the Viratas to resist the combined forces of Trigartas and Kurus. Trigarta kings fought the Kurukshetra War and were killed by Arjuna. Arjuna also annihilated an Akshouhini (a large military unit) of Trigarta warriors called the Samsaptakas. These warriors had vowed to either die or kill Arjuna as part of a larger plan by Duryodhana to capture Yudhishthira alive[1] .
It is doubtful if Trigartas were of the Matsya clan of kings. Judjing by their mode of warefare, they could also be one among the western royalties like the Salwas and Madras.
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- ^ Narayan, R. K. (2000). The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic. University Of Chicago Press, 151-166.
- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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