Tribes in Ancient India c77.74

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c77.74

Kikaṭas The Kikaṭas or Kikaṭa tribe are mentioned in the *Ṛgveda* (III, 53, 14) as being under the rule of a king named Pramaganda. Yāska in his *Nirukta* (VI, 32) says that Kikaṭa was a non-Aryan country (*anārya-nivāsa*). The author of the *Bṛhaddharma Purāṇa* echoes this feeling of Yāska when he says that the Kikaṭa country was *pāpa-bhūmi* or impure country (*Kikaṭe ca mṛto’pyeṣa pāpabhūmau na saṃśayaḥ*, XXVI, 47). The Gayā District was probably included in the Kikaṭa country as is evident from the following passage of the *Bṛhaddharma Purāṇa* (XXV, 20, 22):

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Nirukta — Yāska, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit
Bṛhaddharmapurāṇa — Sanskrit