Historical Geography of Ancient India c10.492

c10.492

The Yaudheyas are also mentioned in the Junāgaḍh Rock Inscription of Rudradāman,¹ where the Śaka king boasts of having ‘rooted out the Yaudheyas’. They are known from the Bijayagaḍh Stone Inscription (C.I.I., Vol. III, pp. 250-51) to have occupied the Bijayagaḍh region of the Bharatpur State.² It probably shows that this powerful clan by this time extended their influence very far to the south, otherwise they would not have come into collision with the Śaka Satrap. But the tide of Scythian invasion could not sweep away this tribal republic which survived at least up to the time of Samudragupta. In the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of this powerful Gupta monarch the Yaudheyas are included in the list of the tribal states of the western and south-western fringes of Āryāvarta, which paid homage to Samudragupta.³ According to some the Yaudheyas occupied an area which may be roughly described as the eastern Punjab.⁴ For further details vide B. C. Law, Indological Studies, Pt. I, 56ff.