Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c6.11

c6.11

It tells us of his battle with the ten kings, but that event cannot be assigned to any definite time unless we know when he lived; and there is the widest difference, whether it took place (as scholars believe at present) when the Aryans were in the Panjab conquering their way into India, and was a battle between them and the hostile races who opposed their eastward advance; or whether it took place (as tradition indicates) long after the Aryans had established themselves in N. India, and was a battle between Sudāsa (Sudās), king of North Pañcāla, and other Aryan and non-Aryan kings who opposed his westward conquests. There is nothing in the Rigveda to fix his position chronologically, but there are plain statements in the genealogies and tradition which assign him a definite place in the scheme of Aryan expansion in North India.