Tribes in Ancient India c77.199

c77.199

The Śatadrujas are the people who dwelt along the river Sutlej. The Vāyupurāṇa reads Śakas and Hradas (XLV, 116), the Matsya reads Śakas and Druhyas instead. The Śakas were a well-known people who left their traces on Indian history. They were at first a northern or north-western people but later on they extended their dominions to the south, east and west. They are known to have established royal families as far east as Mathurā (Muttra) and as far south and west as Ujjain and Surāṣṭra (Kathiawar). The Hradas cannot be identified. The Druhyas were undoubtedly an ancient people being mentioned as Druhyus in the *Rgveda* along with the Anus.