Tribes in Ancient India c20.7

c20.7

An earlier reference to this people is found in the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa* (VIII, 23, 10), where mention is made of Amitratapana, a king of the Śibis. A place called Śivapura or ‘town of the Śivas’ is mentioned by the Scholiast on *Pāṇini*¹ as situated in the northern country. Śivapura must be identical with Śibipura, mentioned in a Shorkot Inscription (*Ep. Ind.*, 1921, p. 16); and Dr. Vogel takes the mound of Shorkot to be the site of the city of the Śibis. Another scholar points out that local tradition also connects Shorkot with Śiva.² Thus we may conclude that the Śivas or Śibis were a people inhabiting the Shorkot region in Jhang in the Punjab, lying between the Irāvatī and the Chandrabhāgā, and therefore included in the northern region or Uttarāpatha.