Pragjyotisha Kingdom
Pragjyotisha is a mythological kingdom that is mentioned in a multitude of Hindu Epics which later came to be associated with the historical Kamarupa. Jae-Eun Shin rejects the uncritical association with historical Kamarupa; she points out that it was Bhaskarvarman of Varman dynasty who constructed a divine descent from the lineage of Naraka/Bhagadatta of the legendary Pragjyotisha to legitimize his rule over Kamarupa. Identifications with elements of mainland Brahminical literature allowed the peripheral origins of the Kamarupa Varmans to pose no problem at a time when Bhaskaravarman had become one of the most prominent Kings of  North India. The identification with the mythical Naraka/Bhagadatta lineage continued to be used by the Mlechchhas and Palas for roughly similar purposes. Scriptures. All early references do not locate Pragjyotisha in or around Kamarupa in Northeast India. The first mentions of this kingdom are found in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, in sections not written much earlier than the first century. In the "Kishkindha Kanda" of the former, Pragjyotisha is placed in the west near Mount Varaha on the sea. In "Aswamedha-Parva" of the latter, Arjuna defeated Vajradatta of Pragjyotisha in a three-day battle near Punjab in  the Lower Indus Valley; the "Harivamsa Parva" features multiple mentions as well. The kingdom was contemporary of Bana kingdom. Popular culture. A popular mythical narrative claims that Jyotisha is the sanskritised form of "Zuhthis", who were (apparently) the first migrants to Assam from China — this has little historical evidence in support.