Tribes in Ancient India c51.2

c51.2

The Videhas are mentioned in the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Vedas as a people in a very advanced stage of civilisation. The part of the country where they lived appears to have been known by the name of Videha even in the still more ancient times of the Saṃhitās, for the *Yajurveda Saṃhitās* mention the cows of Videha, which appear to have been particularly famous in ancient India.¹