The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c10.2

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ably smaller expanse. There is a possibility, or perhaps, rather, not an impossibility, that in the modern place-name may be recognized the Hari-Yūpūyā which is mentioned once in the Rigveda (VI, xxvii, 5) as the scene of the defeat of the Vrcīvants by Abhyāvartin Cayamana.¹ The tribe of the Vrcīvants is likewise nowhere else referred to in the Rigveda, but may be connected with Varcin,² who was a foe of Indra and therefore non-Āryan. Putting these possibilities together, they may be thought to indicate Harappā as the traditional scene of an Āryan victory over a non-Āryan tribe. The conjecture may give a little specious actuality to our story of Harappā, but is not susceptible to proof and has therefore no serious value.