Tribes in Ancient India c51.13

c51.13

In other works of the Brāhmaṇa period as well as of the Sūtra period that followed, other celebrated kings of Videha are mentioned (vide Vedic Index, II, 298), so that there can be no question but that the Videhas maintained a high position in Vedic society at least in the *Brāhmaṇa* period, and from the superior intellectual position that they had attained in this period it is legitimate to assume that Vedic Aryan culture had taken its root in Videha long before the *Brāhmaṇa* age, and most probably in the early *Saṃhitā* age of the *Ṛgveda*.