Tribes in Ancient India c43.4

c43.4

The Sātavāhana records refer to two tribes, Mahābhojas and Mahāraṭhis (Smith, *Aśoka*, 4th Ed., p. 225), who were evidently identical with the earlier Bhojas and Rāṣṭrikas, and it is clear that the Rāṣṭrikas or Mahāraṭhis were the ancestors of the present Mahārāṣṭra people or Mārāṭhas (cf. R. G. Bhandarkar, *Anc. History of the Deccan*).