A History of Sanskrit Literature c9.36

c9.36

Of some tribes we learn nothing from the *Rigveda* but the name, which, however, survives till later times. Thus the Uçīnaras, mentioned only once, were, at the period when the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa* was composed, located in the middle of Northern India; and the Chedis, also referred to only once, are found in the epic age settled in Magadha (Southern Behar). Krivi, as a tribal name connected with the Indus and Asiknī, points to the north-west. In the *Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa* it is stated to be the old name of the Panchālas, who inhabited the country to the north of the modern Delhi.