Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.484

c10.484

Yaudheya.—The Yaudheyas were a republican tribe as old as the age of Pāṇini, the celebrated grammarian (Pāṇini’s Sūtras, 5. 3. 116-117). They maintained their tribal organization as late as the fourth century A.D. about which time they are referred to in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta along with other republican tribes, e.g. the Mālavas, Arjunāyanas, Madrakas, Ābhiras and others. They were also known as such in the sixth century A.D. as we learn from the Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira (XIV. 28).