Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.25

c9.25

Āṭavikarājyas.—Fleet (C.I.I., III, 114) says that the Āṭavikarājyas or forest kingdoms were closely connected with Dabhālā, i.e. the Jabalpur region (E.I., VIII, 284-87; B. C. Law, The Magadhas in Ancient India, Royal Asiatic Society Monograph, Vol. XXIV, p. 19). It was Samudragupta who made the rulers of the Āṭavikarājyas his servants (cf. Allahabad Stone Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta . . . paricārakīkṛta sarvāṭavikarājasya). The Āṭavyas¹ or Āṭavikas were probably the aboriginal tribes dwelling in the jungle tracts of Central India.