Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c8.s3.156

c8.s3.156

The country of Pulinda is placed to the east of Śilahatta and possibly to the south of Kāmarūpa. The text reads ‘to the north of Kāmarūpa’; but no locality to the north of Kāmarūpa, the heart of which was the Gauhati region in Assam, could have anything to do with Śilahatta, i.e. modern Sylhet. The Pulindas were a hill tribe usually connected with the Vindhyan range. Pargiter⁴ notices several branches of the Pulinda tribe, viz. (1) a western branch, (2) a Himalayan branch related to the Kirātas and the Tanganas, and (3) a southern branch.