Historical Geography of Ancient India c7.390

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c7.390

Mṛṣika (Mūṣika or Mūṣaka) Country.—The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (LVIII, 16) mentions the country of the Mṛṣikas in the south-east. Pargiter suggests that the Mṛṣikas were probably settled on the bank of the river Musi on which stands modern Hyderabad (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, p. 366). Both in the Mahābhārata (Bhīṣmaparva, IX, 366) and the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa the Mṛṣikas are mentioned as a people living in the south.

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Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit