Tribes in Ancient India c74.8

c74.8

The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa probably associates the Mekalas with the Ambaṣṭhas (LVIII, 14): the reference is to Mekalāmuṣṭa, which appears to be a corruption of Mekala and Ambaṣṭha. If this is the case, it doubtless refers to the time when the Ambaṣṭhas or a section of them had migrated from their original habitat in the Punjab to south-eastern India, near the Mekala hill in the upper regions of the Narmadā.