India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.58
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.58
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c12.s6.58
The above survey of the names of the *āyudhjīvī Saṅghas* as found in *sūtras* and the *Gaṇa-pāṭha* shows the dominant fact that the *Saṅghas* were clustured in the north-west regions of India and the Punjab, that they were mostly *āyudhajīvins* or martial tribes, a feature retained by most of them to this day, and that they were living in different stages of political evolution, ranging from the *Vrātās* and *Pūgas* to *Śreṇis* and *Saṅghas*, as represented by the wild Piśāchas at one end and the highly organised Yaudheyas on the other.