Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c20.s3.67

c20.s3.67

The Ārjunāyanas and the Yaudheyas are placed in the northern division of India by the author of the *Bṛihat-Saṁhitā*. They may have been connected with the Pandoouoi or Pāṇḍava tribe mentioned by Ptolemy as settled in the Pañjāb.³ The connection of the Ārjunāyanas with the Pāṇḍava Arjuna, is apparent.¹ Yaudheya appears as the name of a son of Yudhishṭhira in the *Mahābhārata*.² The *Harivaṁśa*, a later authority, connects the Yaudheyas with Uśīnara.³ A clue to the locality of this tribe is given by the Bijayagaḍh inscription.⁴ The hill-fort of Bijayagaḍh lies about two miles to the south-west of Byānā in the Bharatpur state of Rājaputāna. But the Yaudheya territory must have extended beyond the limits of this area and embraced the tract still known as Johiyabār along both banks of the Sutlej on the border of the Bahāwalpur state.⁵