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94 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
Savaralu, or Sauras of the Vizagapatam Hills, and the Savaris of the Gwalior territory.1
The capital of the Pulindas (Pulinda-nagara) probably lay to the south-east of the Daśārņas who dwelt on the river Dasan (Dhasan) in Bundelkhand.3
The location of the territory of the Mutibas, another Dasyu tribe mentioned in the Aitareya Brahmana along with the Andhras, Pulindas, and Savaras, is not so certain. Pliny refers to a tribe called "Modubae," and places them along with other peoples between the "Modogalingae," who inhabited a very large island in the Ganges and the Andara (Andhras). The Modubae are associated with the Molindae and the Uberae, perhaps corresponding to the Pulindas and the Savaras of the Aitareya Brahmana. In the Sankhāyana Śrauta Sūtra 5 the Mutibas are called Muvipa or Muchipa. It is not altogether improbable that the last name is connected with that of the river Musi in the Deccan on which Hyderabad now stands.6
1 Ind. Ant., 1879, p. 282; Cunn. AGI, new ed., pp. 583, 586; The Imp. Gaz. The Indian Empire. I, 384. Śavaras are also found in the south-east portion of the district of Raipur (JASB, 1890, 289), in Sambalpur and Ganjam (ibid 1891, 33), the western part of the Cuttack district as well as the north-western portion of Vizagapatam (ibid 1897, 321).
2 Mbh., II. 5-10.
3 JASB. 1895, 253; Kalidasa places them in the Vidisa or Bhilsa region (Meghaduta, 24-25).
4 M'Crindle, Megasthenes and Arrian, 1926, p. 139-140.
5 XV. 26. 6.
6 cf. Mushikas, Pargiter, Märkandeya Purana, p. 366.
