Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c8.s3.158

c8.s3.158

The second branch may be intended here, though the plurality of the name may be due either to misreadings in the manuscripts or to the fact that the term was sometimes used to indicate *any* hill tribe. Pulinda of our text may possibly refer to tribes of the hills of Assam, but more probably to the land of the Paliyās or Rājbaṁśīs of North Bengal.