Tribes in Ancient India c76.10

c76.10

The list of the seven *Kulācalas* seems to have been known in some form or other to Ptolemy as early as the first half of the second century A.D.; for he also specifies seven ranges of hills, although his list does not correspond with the Puranic list, with the exception of the Ouindion, identical with the Vindhyas, and the Ouxenton, identical with the Ṛkṣa (Vant).² Wilson thought that Adeisathron might be identified with the Pāriyātra³; but this has been found to be untenable, and modern research tends to connect the range with the Western Ghāṭs, or, more properly, ‘that section of the Western Ghāṭs which is immediately to the north of the Coimbatore gap, as it is there the Kāverī rises’.⁴