Originally Posted by
lrburdak
Quoting lines from Udyoga parva of Mahabharata...
In this chapter of the Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata, Yudhishthira sends an offer of peace to Duryodhana, and in the course of doing so he names the five villages:We are desirous of peace; give us even a single province of the empire. Give us even Kusasthala, Vrikasthala, Makandi, Varanavata, and for the fifth any other that thou likest. Even this will end the quarrel. O Suyodhana, give unto thy five brothers at least five villages,--O Sanjaya, O thou of great wisdom, let there be peace between us and our cousins.
More important is there present locations ...
We have with us a very twisted and one sided version of real fight that occurred on a massive scale in ancient times .To understand that we have to read not only Indian but other contemporary foreign sources as well.
Pandavas doesn't demand mere villages ...But they asked five provinces of vast empire of KURU kINGDOM .
I know for certain only two and can guess about two other.
Kusasathal was province of Xinjiang
Virkasathla was southeast of caspian sea
makandi may or may not refer to Belochistan and Sistan
and Varnvarta some land at the foothill of great mountains.
Regards
PS Kusasathala virkasathala and Makandi all were Jat inhabited lands since ancient times