Tribes in Ancient India c77.33

c77.33

Pargiter suggests⁹ that the Mūṣikas = Mūṣakas were probably settled on the banks of the river Musi on which stands modern Hyderabad. Dr. Ray Chaudhuri suggests¹⁰ that it is not altogether improbable that the Mūchipa or Mūvipa of the *Sāṅkhyāyana Śrauta Sūtra* are the same people as the Mūṣikas. It is also reasonable to suggest that the Mūṣikas = Mūṣakas were a southern offshoot of the Punjab tribe known to Alexander’s historians as the Mousikenos.¹¹ Patañjali mentions a people called Mauṣikāra¹² which appears to have some connection with the Mūṣikas. A Musikanagara is referred to in the Hāthigumphā Inscription of King Khāravela of Kaliṅga who in the second year of his reign is said to have struck terror into the heart of the people of that place.¹³