Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.1004

v1.c3.s11.1004

Krivi is asserted in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ to have been the older name of the Pañcālas. This statement is supported by the name of the king there mentioned, Kraivya Pañcāla. The Krivis appear in the Rigveda² as settled on the Sindhu and the Asiknī. It is a plausible conjecture of Zimmer’s³ that with the Kurus they made up the Vaikarṇa people.⁴ The importance of the Pañcālas, and the insignificance of the Krivis, may be explained in part by the fact that the later Kuru-Pañcāla alliance included the Bharatas. It is also probable, as Oldenberg⁵ suggests, from the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,⁶ that the Turvaśas were included in the Pañcālas, and as the latter name indicates, probably other tribes also. Or, if Hopkins’ view⁷ is accepted that Turvaśa was king of the Yadus, the latter may in part have been allied with the Krivis to form the Pañcālas.