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TRIBES IN ANCIENT INDIA The Vāyupurāna mentions the Kārūşas and the Mālavas as dwelling along the Pāripātra mountains. The Nasik Praśasti of Gautamiputra Śātakarņi seems to associate the Kukuras also with the Pāriyātra.2 This is probably the earliest epigraphic mention of the mountains. A more elaborate mention is made in the Mandasor Inscription of Yasodharman and Vişnuvardhana, where a large tract of land is described as 'containing many countries, which lie between the Vindhya (mountains), from the slopes of the summits of which there flows the pale mass of the water of (the river) Revā, and the mountain Pāriyātra, on which trees are bent down in (their) frolicsome leaps by the long-tailed monkeys (and which stretches) up to the ocean'.
1 Wilson's Ed., p. 133 (2, III). Mālukas and Mārukas are variant readings for Kārūsas. See also Kūrma P., Pūrva Chap. 7, which seems to include the countries of Aparānta, Saurāṣtra, Sūdra, Malapa (Mālava), Mālaka and others within the Pariyātra area.
2 Byhatsamhitā, XIV, 4. 3 C.I.I., Vol. III, p. 154.
