The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.57

c16.s1.57

In this light, a novel interpretation can be placed on the famous Battle of Ten Kings of the Vedic Age. It is very significant that Sudas, the hero, comes from the heart of the Brahmavarta. The princes aligned against him were Anus, Dhruyus, Turvasas, Yadus and the Purus in coalition with certain Aryan and non-Aryan tribes—Alinas (modern Kafiristan), Pakthas, Bhalanases, Sivas. The success of Sudas marks the supremacy of the eastern wing of the Aryans settled in the Sarasvati, Drishadvati and the Ganga-Yamuna doab. We have already described the movement of Yadavas, Haihayas and the Anavas south-eastwards into Central India, leaving the Gangetic basin to the Bharatas etc. In the light of the recent evidence of Archaeology and the strong mutual influences which each of the three main Proto-historic cultures exercised on each other, the large scale colonization of Central India and the Deccan might represent the movement of a branch of Aryans who absorbed and mixed sufficiently with the Pre-Aryan people of the Indus basin. Manavas, might in that case, represent Aryans, Dravidians or both mixed up.