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GEOGRAPHICAL PLACES, PEOPLES AND TRIBES
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Palhiya the Bahikas:-They are called Anaryas (VC, 8.3) and are associated with the people of the north (VR, 4.44.13). Their country is located between the Bias and the Sutlej, north of Kekaya (GD, p.19).
Khandhārā = the Gandharas:-The Gandhara country is identified with the modern Kandhar comprising the districts of East Afganistan and the north-west Punjab (BI, p.28). The country comprised of the district of Peshawar and Rawalpindi (GD. p.60f).
Kolathe Kolas :--The Kols, a collection of aboriginal tribes are said to have dwelt in Bihar in ancient times and now they inhabit the mountainous districts of Chhotanagpur, Orisa and Madhya Pradesh (Mar. Pu, Tr. p. 365).
Uluga Uluka :-The Ulukas of MB are located by Pargiter in the Nepal (Mar. Pu, Tr. p. 346).
Further they are mentioned to have conquered "Purikobera kuhara andha ya tahā kalingamãiya, countries (98.67).
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Purikobera the Purikauberas?: - On the basis of the reference in the Harivamsapurana to the city of Purika in the kingdom of Mahiṣmatī B.C. Law calls it probably a city of the Paurikas (TAI, p. 383). Our Paurikauberas are perhaps the same people.
Kuhara the Koharas -The town Kahror is known to ancient India. It was on the bank of the old Beas river, 50 miles to the southeast of Multan and 20 miles to the north-east of Bahawalpur (CAGI, p. 277). Then in the Puranas the river Kabul is mentioned as Kuhu and in the Rgveda as Kubha (GEI, p. 89). Ptolemy includes the Kirrhadai among the tribes of Sogdiana (TAI, p. 282). The word Kuhara of the PCV has similarity with the above mentioned names, but the people of that name remains unidentified.
Andha the Andhras:-V.A. Smith regards them as the Dravadian people and progenitors of modern Telugu people, inhabitants of the deltas of the Godavari and the Krishna (Ind. Ant., 1913 p. 276f). They are also called as a Vindhyan tribe who extended its political power from the west to the east down the valleys of the Krishna and the Godavari. The Satavahanas are called Andhras or Andhrabhṛtyas by the Puranas and it is well-known that they ruled over the whole of Andhradeśa (TAI, p. 164). Huen Tsang's accounts locate the Andhradeśa in the region of the deltas of the Kṛṣṇa and the Godavari (Ind. Ant., 1877. p. 339).
Kalinga = the Kalingas:-Aśoka conquered the Kalingadeśa and annexed it to his country (RE). King Kharvela was the ruler of Kalinga
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