Vedic-era kingdom of eastern Rajasthan, later reckoned among the sixteen Mahajanapadas; capital at Viratanagari (modern Bairat), named for its legendary founder-king Virata and featured in the Mahabharata.
Faded as an independent power during the consolidation of the Mahajanapada era, absorbed into larger neighboring states by the mid-1st millennium BC.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Matsya — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 BC · 500 BC · 361 BC · 349 BC · 321 BC.
Covers Matsya among the Vedic-period kingdoms that became Mahajanapadas.