Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s3.3
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s3.3
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c12.s3.3
It is difficult to say anything about the ethnic affiliation of these rulers. The form of the names indicates that they were either Aryans themselves or had come under the influence of Aryan culture. But there were certain principalities which were definitely styled Nishāda in the epic, and Ālavaka, (forest-folk of Yaksha-infested land) in the Pāli texts and were doubtless of non-Aryan origin.