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90 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
Satvats : "dakshinasyāṁ disi ye ke cha Satvatāṁ rājāno Bhaujyayaiva te'bhishichyante Bhoj-etye-nān-abhishiktānlāchakshata—" "in the southern region whatever kings there are of the Satvats, they are' anointed for Bhaujya ; 'O Bhoja' they style them when consecrated in accordance with the action of the deities).” In the Satapatha, Brālmaņa " the defeat by Bharata of the Satvats, and his taking away the horse which they had prepared for an Ašvamedha or horse-sacrifice are referred to. These Satvats must have been living near Bharata's realm, i.e., near the Ganges and the Yamunā. But in the time of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa they probably moved farther to the south. They are placed in the southern region (dakshiņā diś) beyond the "fixed middle region"the land of the Kurus, Pañchālas and some neighbouring tribes. The Pañchāla realm, according to epic testimony, extended as far south as the Chambal. The Satvat people of the "southern region” mentioned in the Aitareya Brāhmana, therefore, in all probability, lived beyond that river. Their kings were called Bhojas. This account of the Satvats and the Bhojas, deduced from the Brāhmaṇic statements, accords with Purānic evidence. It is stated in the Purānas that the Sātvat(a)s and the Bhojas were offshoots of the Yadu family which dwelt at Mathurā on the banks of the Yamunā. We are further told by the same authorities that they were the kindreds of the southern realm of Vidarbha. We have evidence of a closer connection between the Bhojas and the last-mentioned territory. A place called Bhojakața, is included
1 XIII. 5. 4. 21. 2 ibid, XIII, 5. 4, 11.
3 Mbh., I. 138. 74 ; Dakshināmschāpi Pāñchālān yāvach Charmanvati nadi.
4 Matsya, 43. 48, 44, 46-48 ; Vāyu, 94. 52; 95, 18 ; 96. 1-2 ; Vishnu IV, 13. 1-6.
5 Mat.. 44.36; Vāyu, 95. 35-36,
