Tribes in Ancient India c8.56

c8.56

In the Gaṇḍatindu Jātaka we read that during the reign of Pañcāla, king of Kampilla, the people were so much oppressed by taxation that they took their wives and families and wandered in the forest like wild beasts. By day they were plundered by the king’s men and by night by robbers.⁶