Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s6.74

c9.s6.74

The location of the territory of the **Mūtibas**, another *Dasyu* tribe mentioned in the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa* along with the Andhras, Pulindas, and Śavaras, is not so certain. Pliny refers to a tribe called "Modubae," and places them along with other peoples between the "Modogalingae," who inhabited a very large island in the Ganges and the *Andaræ* (Andhras).⁴ The Modubae are associated with the Molindae and the Uberae, perhaps corresponding to the Pulindas and the Śavaras of the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*. In the *Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra*⁵ the Mūtibas are called Mūvīpa or Mūchīpa. It is not altogether improbable that the last name is connected with that of the river Musi in the Deccan on which Hyderabad now stands.⁶