The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.43

v1.c24.43

In the Pūrus or Pauravas of the Purāṇas the Bharatas of the Rigveda and the Kurus of the Brāhmaṇas have been merged. In the Rigveda both the Pūrus and the Bharatas live in the land of the Sarasvatī (Brahmāvarta or Sirhind). But already the Āryan occupation of Kurukshetra, the adjacent country of the upper Jumna and Ganges on the south-east, was beginning: for a victory on the Jumna gained by Sudās, king of the Tṛitsus, over a native leader called Bheda is referred to in VII, 18, 19. In the Purāṇas, Sudās and his family appear in the list of the kings of N. Pañchāla to the east of Kurukshetra. That is to say, the later kings of N. Pañchāla (p. 316) claimed descent from the Tṛitsus of the Rigveda, who are regarded by the Purāṇas as a branch of the Pūrus.