Tribes in Ancient India c12.35

c12.35

³ See *Ann. B.O.R.I.*, Vol. XIII, parts III-IV, 1931-2, p. 229.—‘In *Ep. Ind.*, V, 229, the Daṇḍanāyaka Anantapāla, a feudatory of Vikramāditya VI, is said to have subdued the Sapta Mālava countries up to the Himālaya mountains. This proves that there were as many as seven countries called Mālava. These were probably (1) *Mo-la-po* (Mālavaka-āhāra of Valabhi grants) on the Mahi, governed by the Maitrakas, (2) *Avanti* ruled by a Brāhmaṇa family in the time of Hsüan Tsang, (3) Pūrva Mālava (round Bhilsa), (4) District round Prayāga, (5) Fatehpur District, in U.P., (6) Cis-Sutlej districts of the Punjab, (7) Some Himalayan territory’ (*P.H.A.I.*, 4th Ed., p. 492, f.n. 4).