Tribes in Ancient India c69.4

c69.4

The name Kharaparika does not occur elsewhere in inscriptions or literature; but Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar¹ finds a probable identification of the tribe with Kharpara mentioned in the Bāṭihāgarh Inscription of the Damoh District of the Central Provinces. The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (LVIII, 47) mentions a tribe called Khara-sāgara-rāśis,² along with the Gandhāras and the Yaudheyas; and the Matsyapurāṇa (CXXI, 56) refers to a country named Kharapatha, watered by the river Nalinī. It is difficult to say whether this people Khara-sāgara-rāśi, and country Kharapatha, had anything to do with the Kharaparikas.