Tribes in Ancient India c7.25

c7.25

In Buddhist literature, Uttara-Kuru is very often mentioned as a mythic region, but there are some passages which go to show that there was a faint memory of a country that once had a historical existence [see, e.g. the reference to ‘Kurudīpa’, *Dīpavaṃsa*, p. 16; and the statement in the *Sāsanavaṃsa* (p. 12) that the place of the inhabitants of Uttaradvīpa is called the kingdom of Kurus (*Kuru-raṭṭhaṃ*).