[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [Tribes in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943) › c8.2 # Tribes in Ancient India c8.2 Tribes in Ancient India c8.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c8.2) The Pañcālas, like the Kurus, are most intimately connected with the Vedic civilization of the Brāhmaṇa period. The \*Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa\*¹ tells us that they were called Krivis in ancient times. In an enumeration of the ancient monarchs who had performed the Aśvamedha sacrifice, a king Kraivya Pañcāla is mentioned, and it is definitely stated that Krivi was the ancient name of the Pañcāla tribe. Krivi appears as a tribal name in the \*Ṛgveda\*.² Zimmer is of the opinion that the Krivis resided in the region near the Sindhu and the Asiknī in the Punjab, and the authors of the \*Vedic Index\* express the same view.³ But the only piece of evidence in favour of this hypothesis is that Krivi is mentioned in a verse of a Ṛgvedic hymn, in which the names of those rivers occur in a subsequent verse (VIII, 20, 25). The \*Ṛgveda\* does not clearly testify to any connection between the rivers and the people. - [Previous: c7.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c7.74) - [Next: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c8.3) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c8) ## Cites (2) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c8.2) · Pramāṇa