Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c6.s1.6

c6.s1.6

3. Vy, Bmd, Mts—शाल्वाश्चैव स-जाङ्गलाः; Mbh—शाल्वा माद्रेय-जाङ्गलाः । For the six branches of the Śālva tribe, cf. Vj, 1.3.I. 38-39—साल्वास्तु कारकुत्सी (Ac—क्षी) यास्तेषां त्ववयवाः परे । उदुम्बरास्तिलखला महा-(द्र)कारा युगन्धराः । हु(भु)लिङ्गाः शरदण्डाश्च षट् साल्वावयवा इमे ॥ For the traditional verse referring to the constituting elements of the Śālva or Kārakukṣīya tribe that lived in the Punjab and the adjoining regions of U.P. and Rajputana, quoted by grammarians, cf. *Pre-Aryan and pre-Dravidian in India*, p. 80. Jāngala is apparently the same as Kuru-Jāngala near the Sarasvatī. See Raychaudhuri, *op. cit.*, pp. 19 f.