Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.5

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During, and probably long before, this period the Āryans were pouring into India, through the North-west of India along the high mountains of Himavat, Mūjavat and Trikakud, and across the rivers Suvāstu, Krumu and others.² We see them coming into conflict with the Non-Āryan Dāsa people of the east and south and with the Asura people from along the Sindhu-Sarasvatī waterways.³ The conflict terminates with the Dāsarājña battle on the Paruṣṇī (Rāvī) where the Ārya-Bhāratas emerge victorious and lead their way into the ‘interior’. The Asura-Pūrus, with their ten allies, suffer defeat and are pushed to further east. The Dāsa is also vanquished and driven away among the hills.⁴ Then follows a remarkable process of amalgamation, by which the Tṛtsu-Bhāratas merge into the Kurus on the Sarasvatī,⁵ the Asura-Pūrus into the Pāñcālas,⁶ and at last in the Brāhmaṇa Period we see the United nation of the Kuru-Pāñcāla⁷ inhabiting the region which latterly becomes the hallowed Kurukṣetra. "Indo-Aryan genealogy starts a fresh page with the Kuru-Pāñcāla—Pauravas of Hastināpura".⁸