Tribes in Ancient India c63.66

c63.66

Other Epic references to the Sauvīras include the mention of a Sauvīra king Śatruñjaya, who received instruction from a priest named Bharadvāja (*Mbh.*, XII, Chap. 140, 5249-50), and of a Sauvīra princess who married Manasyu, the son of Pravīra by a Śaurasena princess, and grandson of Puru (*Mbh.*, *Ādiparvan*, Chap. 49, 3696-7). Sovīra or Sauvīra is also mentioned in early Buddhist literature. The *Mahāgovinda Suttanta*² refers to Sovīra whose king was Bharata; while the *Divyāvadāna* in relating a story (pp. 544-86) accounting for the name of Bharukaccha (Broach), refers to Rudrāyaṇa, king of Roruka in Sauvīra. The *Mahābhāṣya* of Patañjali and the *Vyākaraṇa* of Kramadeśvara mention a city named Dattāmitri in Sauvīra.³ In the *Milinda-Pañho*, Sovīra is described as a great sea-port (Trenckner Ed., p. 359); and it is not unlikely that the country is identical with the famous Sophir or Ophir of the Bible.⁴ Alberuni appears to identify Sauvīra with Multan and Jahrawar (*India*, Vol. I, pp. 300, 302); while, according to the *Haimakoṣa* (IV, 26), the Sauvīra country is identical with Kunālaka.