Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.83

v1.c3.s21.83

Pañca-nada, ‘having five streams,’ is not found until the epic period as the name of the Panjāb, which has no designation in the earlier literature. The importance of the Panjāb as the home¹ of the Rigveda has been greatly diminished by recent research, Hopkins,² Pischel,³ and Geldner⁴ having on different grounds shown reason for believing that the Rigveda, at least in great part, was composed farther east, in the Madhyadeśa, which admittedly was the home of the later Vedic culture. Hillebrandt⁵ considers that the Rigveda belongs in part to the Panjāb, or rather to Arachosia, and in part to the Middle Country. See also Kuru, Tṛtsu.