Tribes in Ancient India c77.16

c77.16

The *Vāyu* and *Matsya Purāṇas* (XLV, 126 and CXIII, 48) read Ātavyas which is no doubt the correct reading. Āṭavī as a city of the Deccan is mentioned in the *Mahābhārata*.¹ The Ātavyas were certainly the same as the Āṭavikas of the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta, who were perhaps aboriginal tribes dwelling in the jungle tracts of Central India.