Tribes In Ancient India

SR No.: 007311
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1943
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 132 MB

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MISCELLANEOUS TRIBES
383 Kadambas and the Vejayanti of epigraphic records. It is held to be the same as the Buzantion of the Periplus.
The Vāyu and Matsya Purānas (XLÊ, 126 and CXIII, 48) read Ādhakyas
Ātavyas which is no doubt the correct reading. hakyas Atavi as a city of the Deccan is mentioned in the Mahābhārata.1 The Ātavyas were certainly the same as the Ātavikas of the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta, who were perhaps aboriginal tribes dwelling in the jungle tracts of Central India. The Dandakas are undoubtedly the people dwelling in the
Dandaka forest celebrated in the Rāmāyana in conDangakas nection with the story of Rāma's exile. According to the description in the Rāmāyana, the forest seems to have covered almost the whole of Central India from the Bundelkhand region to the Godāvarī,2 but the Mahābhārata seems to limit the Dandaka forest to the source of the Godāvari.3 For Paurikas the Vāyupurāņa reads Paunikas instead (XLV, 127)
perhaps wrongly. According to the Harivamsa, Paurikas
Purikā was a city in the Māhismati kingdom (XCV, 5220-28). It is not improbable that Purikā was the city of the Paurikas. These two names are evidently misreadings and it is difficult
to find out what is the correct form. The VāvuAtharvas and Arkalingas
purāna reads atha pārśve talangāśca while the Matsya
gives Atharvāśca Kalingāśca. All these readings are improbable. Tilangas are well known as a southern people who are mentioned in connection with the southern peoples in the Mārkandeya Purana (Chap. 58, verse 28). They are identical with the Trikalingas. Avantas and Kalingas though otherwise well known are nowhere located in the Madhyadeśa. •The Mārkandeya Purāna speaks of the Avantas as a Vindhyan tribe (Chap. 57, verses 52 and 55). In the same Purāna, the Kalingas are once spoken of as a northern tribe (ibid., verse 37) and then again as a southern tribe (ibid., v. 46). The reference to the Kalingas as a northern tribe is undoubtedly wrong. The Vāyupurāna reads Maunikas (XLV, 127) instead. The
Sabhāparvan of the Mahābhārata refers to a people Maulikas
named Mauleyas. The Maulikas were evidently the people of Mülaka mentioned in the Pārāyaṇavagga of the Suttanipāta.
1 Sabhāparvan, XXX, 1176. ? J.R.A.S., 1894, p. 24I; f. Jataba, Fausböll, Vol. V, P. 29. 3 Sabhāparvan, XXX, 1169; Vanaparvan, LXXXV, 8183-4.