Tribes in Ancient India c76.17

c76.17

The Purāṇas refer to a number of rivers issuing from the Pāriyātra, e.g. the Mahī, the Varṇāśā or Parṇāśā, the Śiprā, the Carmaṇvatī, the Sindhu and the Vetravatī. The Mahī is well known; Varṇāśā or Parṇāśā has been identified by Pargiter with the modern Banās, a tributary of the Carmaṇvatī (Chambal). Sindhu is Kālī Sindhu, a tributary of the Carmaṇvatī, and Vetravatī is modern Betwa. Śiprā is the famous river immortalised in Sanskrit classical poetry. The *Viṣṇupurāṇa* mentions yet another river issuing from the Pāripātra mountains, namely, the Vedasmṛti⁷ (or Vedasmṛta according to the *Mahābhārata*).⁸