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TRIBES IN ANCIENT INDIA
Among the foreign potentates who came of their own accord to offer allegiance to Samudragupta (fourth century A.D.) were the "Śaka-Muruņdas' 1; while a 'Muruņda-Svāminī' is mentioned in a Central Indian inscription of the sixth century A.D.
1 According to Dr. Sten Konow, 'murunda' is the later form of a saka word meaning 'lord' or 'master'. The term 'Saka-Murundas' possibly stands, therefore, for those Saka lords or chieftains who were ruling in the regions of Surāstra and Ujjain at the time of Samudragupta. (Cf. Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta.)
