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figured as one of the most numerous and warlike of all the Indian tribes in the Punjab' at the time of Alexander's invasion. The second is invariably associated in the Great Epic (vii, 19.6; ix, 37.1) with the Abhiras who lived near the Sarasvati. Apart from their association with the Sindhavas in the Apadāna, nothing further is as yet known of the Rohanas as a tribe or peoplo. They were probably the Indian people in Uttarāpatha who formed a settlement in Ceylon 'comprising the south-eastern part of the island', though, according to the chronicles of Ceylon, the kingdom of Rohana was founded by a Sakyan prince.1 The Sindhavas, as their name implies, were a tribo or people who settled down in a valley of the Indus and founded a territory which has been known as Sindhu or Sind. This territory is constantly associated in the early Pali texts with that of the Sauviras between the Indus and the Jhelum.
The Kurus are described by Buddhaghosa as a people who had migrated in large numbers from Uttarakuru to Jambudvipa and founded a kingdom which was named Kuru after them.2 The Kuru kingdom which was 300 leagues in extent comprised several districts, towns and villages, and its capital, Indapatta (Sk. Indraprastha near the modern Delhi) was seven
1 Mahāvamea, ix, 10.
4 Papancasidant, i, 184
