Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c5.s4.46

c5.s4.46

9. Niṣāda—known from the later Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas probably as a general name of the Nonaryan tribes which were outside Aryan control unlike the Śūdras; Mahīdhara regards them as identical with the Bhilla, i. e. the modern Bhil.