Tribes in Ancient India c17.8

c17.8

⁵ ‘Yaudheyāadrijān rājan Madrakān Mālavānapi’. Here ‘Adrijān’ has been interpreted by some as signifying a tribe, the ‘Adrijas’ (possibly = the Adraistai of the Greeks); but it seems more likely that it is simply an epithet qualifying the Yaudheyas (‘mountain-born’). There is no mention in Sorensen’s Index to the names in the Mahābhārata of ‘adrija’ used as the name of a tribe.