Tribes in Ancient India c73.22

c73.22

We gather, then, that at this time the Bhojas had spread far and wide over India; they were found in the west, in the Madhyadeśa, and in the south, for King Bhīṣmaka, father of Rukmiṇī and father-in-law of Kṛṣṇa, is called a Bhoja. Thus Kṛṣṇa says, ‘That mighty king of the Bhojas, Bhīṣmaka . . . who governs a fourth part of the world, who has conquered by his learning the Pāṇḍyas and Krathakauśikas . . . has (also) become a servitor to the king of Magadha (Jarāsandha). We are his relatives . . . yet he does not at all regard us. He is always doing us ill. Without knowing his own strength and the dignity of the race to which he belongs, Bhīṣmaka has placed himself under Jarāsandha’s shelter, only seeing his blazing fame.’³