Pañcāla / Kuru-Pañcāla region

The Kuru–Pañcāla region was a heartland of late-Vedic culture in the western Gangetic plain (parts of present-day Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh). It is the milieu of much of the Brāhmaṇa and early Upaniṣadic literature, associated with the sage Uddālaka Āruṇi.