Tribes in Ancient India c41.9

c41.9

In the Bengali recension of the *Rāmāyaṇa* (Kiṣkindhyā K., XLI, 17; XLIV, 12), the Pulindas appear both in the south and in the north. The northern recension knows only of the northern Pulindas (Kiṣkindhyā K., XLIII). The *Viṣṇupurāṇa*⁵ associates the Pulindakas (probably identical with the Pulindas) with the Sindhus: the two peoples are coupled in a compound—Sindhu- Pulindakas—and are mentioned together with the Kārūṣas, Bhojas, Daśārṇas, Mekalas, Utkalas and other tribes. The compound Sindhu-Pulindaka also occurs in the *Mahābhārata* (6, 346ff.) and *Padmapurāṇa* (III, 6, 4ff.). The Pulindas are alluded to in the *Raghuvamśa* as well (XVI, 32), but there is hardly any clue to their geographical location.