Tribes in Ancient India c22.13

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I. (A) In the *Mahābhārata* they are often mentioned along with the Matsyas, Kāśīs, Cedis, and Pañcālas (*Bhīṣmaparvan*, Chap. 47, 4; Chap. 56, 13; Chap. 54, 8; *Droṇaparvan*, Chap. 8, 28; Chap. 20, 23, etc.). The *Viṣṇupurāṇa* mentions them together with the Matsyas, Cedis, and Bhojas (Wilson, II, pp. 156-90). Pargiter therefore suggests that the country of the Kārūṣas lay to the south of Kāśī and Vatsa, between Cedi on the west and Magadha on the east enclosing the Kaimur hills,—i.e. it was equivalent to the country of Rewa, from the Ken river in the west to the confines of Bihar in the east.³