Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s3.16

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⁴ *Cf. Nishāda-rāshṭra*, Mbh., III. 130. 4 (the place of the disappearance—*Vinaśana*—of the river Sarasvatī is described as the *dvāra* of *Nishādarāshṭra*); note also *Pāriyātracharāḥ*, Mbh., XII, 135, 3-5. In Mbh. ii. 31. 4-7 a Nishādabhūmi is placed between the Matsyas (of Jaipur) and the Chambal. The Vedic commentator Mahīdhara explains the word Nishāda as meaning a Bhil (*Vedic Index*, I. 454). According to Bühler (*IA*, 7, 263) Nishāda probably corresponded with Hissar and Bhatnir.