Tribes in Ancient India c76.2

c76.2

It is doubtful whether Pāriyātras, or Pāripātras as they were also called,¹ can ethnologically be classed as a tribe or people, to be distinguished from the Vindhyas with whom they lived contiguously, or from other peoples who had their habitat in and around the same locality. The Purāṇas, however, always enumerate them as a distinct people, associated with the Pāripātra mountains, from which they evidently took their name.