[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s4.105 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.105 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.105 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s4.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4.105) Madra denotes a people who are mentioned in the Bṛhad-āraṇyaka Upaniṣad;¹ Kāpya Patañcala was then living among them. Their name appears elsewhere in Vedic literature, only in that of a branch, the Uttara Madras, the ‘northern Madras,’ who are referred to in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa² as living beyond the Himālaya (pareṇa Himavantam) in the neighbourhood of the Uttara Kurus, probably, as Zimmer³ conjectures, in the land of Kaśmīr. The Madras mentioned in the Upaniṣad were, like the Kurus, probably settled somewhere in Kurukṣetra in the Madhyadeśa or ‘Middle Land.’ Cf. Madragāra. - [Previous: v2.c4.s4.104](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4.104) - [Next: v2.c4.s4.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4.106) - [Up: v2.c4.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s4.105) · Pramāṇa