Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c17.25

c17.25

The name Mahiṣa, applied to a people and their land, must have originally derived from the totem of the said people. It is thus possible to think that there were more settlements of the Mahiṣa people in different parts of the country than one. Māhiṣamatī on the Narmadā seems also to owe its name to the Mahiṣas. But there is as yet no genuine evidence (excepting doubtfully read legends of a few coins) to show that the southern part of the former Hyderabad State was known as the Mahiṣa country.