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List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes

Index List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes

This is a list of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes that are mentioned in the literature of Indian religions. [1]

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  1. 194 relations: Aṅguttara Nikāya, Abhira Kingdom, Abhira people, Agni, Aitareya Brahmana, Alans, Alexander the Great, Anarta, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Anga, Arjunayanas, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Arthur Berriedale Keith, Aryan, Asmaka, Atharvaveda, Audumbaras, Avanti (region), Avanti Kingdom (Mahabharata), Avestan, Avestan geography, Āryāvarta, Battle of the Ten Kings, Beas River, Bharata (Mahabharata), Bharatas (Vedic tribe), Bharuch, Bhokardan, Bhrigu, Bolan Pass, Brahmanda Purana, Brahui people, Buddhism, Central India, Chakravarti (Sanskrit term), Chedi Kingdom, Chenab River, Daradas, Dasa, Dasharna, Dīgha Nikāya, Gandhara, Gandhari language, Gandhāra (kingdom), Greater Magadha, Greeks, Harvard Oriental Series, Heheya Kingdom, Himalayas, ... Expand index (144 more) »

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Aṅguttara Nikāya

The Aṅguttara Nikāya (also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

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Abhira Kingdom

The Abhira kingdom in the Mahabharata is either of two kingdoms near the Sarasvati river.

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Abhira people

The Abhiras were a legendary people mentioned in ancient Indian epics and scriptures as early as the Vedas.

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Agni

Agni (अग्नि) is the Hindu god of fire.

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Aitareya Brahmana

The Aitareya Brahmana (ऐतरेय ब्राह्मण) is the Brahmana of the Shakala Shakha of the Rigveda, an ancient Indian collection of sacred hymns.

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Alans

The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Anarta

Anarta (आनर्त) was an ancient Indian region which corresponded to the present-day North Saurashtra to North Gujarat regions in Gujarat state of India.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anga

Anga was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of eastern India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Anga are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Arjunayanas

Arjunayana, Arjunavana, Arjunavayana or Arjunayanaka was an ancient republican people located in Punjab or north-eastern Rajasthan.

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Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Arthur Anthony Macdonell, FBA (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1930) was a Sanskrit scholar.

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Arthur Berriedale Keith

Arthur Berriedale Keith, FBA (5 April 1879 – 6 October 1944) was a Scottish constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologist.

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Aryan

Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (an-arya).

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Asmaka

Asmaka or Assaka was a Mahajanapada in ancient India which existed between 700 BCE and 425 or 345 BCE according to the Buddhist texts Anguttara Nikaya and Puranas.

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Atharvaveda

The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".

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Audumbaras

The Audumbras, or Audumbaras (Hindi;ओदुम्बर) were a north Indian tribal nation east of the Punjab, in the Western Himalaya region.

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Avanti (region)

Avanti, was an ancient Indian Mahajanapada (Great Janapada), roughly corresponding to the present-day Malwa region.

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Avanti Kingdom (Mahabharata)

The historical Avanti Kingdom of ancient India is described in the Mahabharata epic.

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Avestan

Avestan is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC).

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Avestan geography

Avestan geography refers to the investigation of place names in the Avesta and the attempt to connect them to real-world geographical sites.

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Āryāvarta

Āryāvarta (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त, lit. "Land of the Aryans",, Monier Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary (1899)) is a term for the northern Indian subcontinent in the ancient Hindu texts such as ''Dharmashastras'' and Sutras, referring to the areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and surrounding regions settled by Indo-Aryan tribes and where Indo-Aryan religion and rituals predominated.

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Battle of the Ten Kings

The Battle of the Ten Kings (दाशराज्ञ युद्ध) was first alluded to in the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda (RV) and took place between a king of the Bharatas named King Sudas versus a confederation of tribes.

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Beas River

The Beas River is a river in north India.

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Bharata (Mahabharata)

Bharata (Bharata) is a legendary emperor featured in Hindu literature.

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Bharatas (Vedic tribe)

The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. The earliest mentioned location of the Bharatas was on the first Sarasvatī River in southern Afghanistan. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Bharatas (Vedic tribe) are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Bharuch

Bharuch, formerly known as Bharutkutccha, is a city at the mouth of the river Narmada in Gujarat in western India.

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Bhokardan

Bhokardan is a metropolis in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is one the oldest cities in India.

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Bhrigu

Bhrigu (भृगु) is a rishi of Adi-rishi tradition.

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Bolan Pass

Bolan Pass (درۂ بولان) is a valley and a natural gateway through the Toba Kakar range in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Brahmanda Purana

The Brahmanda Purana (translit) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas, a genre of Hindu texts.

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Brahui people

The Brahui (براہوئی), Brahvi, or Brohi are an ethnic group of pastoralists principally found in Pakistan, and to a smaller extent in Afghanistan and Iran.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Central India

Central India is a loosely defined geographical region of India.

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Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)

A chakravarti (चक्रवर्तिन्) is an ideal (or idealized) universal ruler, in the history, and religion of India.

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Chedi Kingdom

Chedi was a kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Chedi Kingdom are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Chenab River

The Chenab River is a major river that flows in India and Pakistan, and is one of the 5 major rivers of the Punjab region. It is formed by the union of two headwaters, Chandra and Bhaga, which rise in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul region of Himachal Pradesh, India. The Chenab flows through the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, into the plains of Punjab, Pakistan, before ultimately flowing into the Indus River.

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Daradas

Daradas were an ancient people who lived north and north-west to the Kashmir Valley.

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Dasa

Dasa (Dāsa) is a Sanskrit word found in ancient Indian texts such as the Rigveda, Pali canon, and the Arthashastra.

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Dasharna

Dasharna (Sanskrit:दशार्ण) was an ancient Indian janapada (realm) in eastern Malwa region between the Dhasan River and the Betwa River.

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Dīgha Nikāya

The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the first of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism.

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Gandhara

Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan.

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Gandhari language

Gāndhārī was an Indo-Aryan Prakrit language found mainly in texts dated between the 3rd century BCE and 4th century CE in the region of Gandhāra, located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

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Gandhāra (kingdom)

Gandhāra (गन्धार) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of northwestern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Greater Magadha

Greater Magadha is a theory in the studies of the early history of India, introduced by Johannes Bronkhorst.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Harvard Oriental Series

The Harvard Oriental Series is a book series founded in 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren.

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Heheya Kingdom

In the Mahabharata epic, the Heheya Kingdom (also known as Haihaya, Haiheya, Heiheya, etc.) is one of the kingdoms ruled by Chandravanshi (Yadava) kings in central and western India.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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History of Hinduism

The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent.

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History of India

Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.

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Hurrian language

Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC.

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Hurrians

The Hurrians (Ḫu-ur-ri; also called Hari, Khurrites, Hourri, Churri, Hurri) were a people who inhabited the Ancient Near East during the Bronze Age.

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Ikshvaku (disambiguation)

Ikshvaku is a mythological king in appearing in ancient Indian literature as the founder of the Ikshvaku dynasty.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian epic poetry

Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).

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Indian religions

Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Indo-Aryan languages are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Indo-Aryan migrations

The Indo-Aryan migrations were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Indo-Aryan migrations are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Indo-Aryan peoples

Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Iranians

The Indo-Iranian peoples, also known as Ā́rya or Aryans from their self-designation, were a group of Indo-European speaking peoples who brought the Indo-Iranian languages to major parts of Eurasia in waves from the first part of the 2nd millennium BC onwards.

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Indra

Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.

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Iron Age in India

In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age succeeded Bronze Age India and partly corresponds with the megalithic cultures of India.

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Jain literature

Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion.

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Janapada

The Janapadas (c. 1500–600 BCE) were the realms, republics (ganapada) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent.

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Jhelum

Jhelum is a city on the West Bank of the Jhelum River, which is located in the district of Jhelum in the North of Punjab, Pakistan.

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Jhelum River

The Jhelum River is a river in the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Kalinga (Mahabharata)

Kalinga is a kingdom described in the legendary Indian text Mahabharata.

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Kamarupa

Kamarupa (also called Pragjyotisha or Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa), an early state during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, was (along with Davaka) the first historical kingdom of Assam.

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Kambojas

The Kambojas were a southeastern Iranian people who inhabited the northeastern most part of the territory populated by Iranian tribes, which bordered the Indian lands.

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Karusha Kingdom

The Karusha Kingdom is one of the Yadava kingdoms of the Mahabharata epic.

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Kasmira Kingdom

Kasmira or Kashmira was a kingdom identified as the Kashmir Valley along the Jhelum River of modern Jammu and Kashmir.

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Kaurava

Kaurava is a Sanskrit term which refers to descendants of Kuru, a legendary king of India who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the epic Mahabharata.

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Kekaya

Kekaya (Sanskrit) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-western South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE).

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Khasas

Khasas (Sanskrit: खश) were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and a late Janapada kingdom from Himalayan regions of northern Indian subcontinent mentioned in the various historical Indian inscriptions and ancient Indian Hindu and Tibetan literature. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Khasas are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Konkana Kingdom

Konkana was a southern kingdom populated by Brahmins during and after the period of Puranas.

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Kosala

Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India.

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Kuninda Kingdom

The Kingdom of Kuninda (or Kulinda in ancient literature) was an ancient central Himalayan kingdom documented from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century, located in the southern areas of modern Himachal Pradesh and far western areas of Uttarakhand in northern India and Doti Gadwall in Nepal.

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Kuru Kingdom

Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Kuru Kingdom are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Kutch district

Kutch district, officially spelled Kachchh, is a district of Gujarat state in western India, with its headquarters (capital) at Bhuj.

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Lata (region)

Lata (IAST: Lāṭa) was a historical region of India, located in the southern part of the present-day Gujarat state.

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Licchavis of Vaishali

The Licchavis of Vaishali (Māgadhī Prakrit: 𑀮𑀺𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀯𑀺; Pāli:; Sanskrit: ऋक्षवी Ṛkṣavī; English: "Bear Clan") were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and dynasty of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested from the Iron Age to the Classical Age.

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List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes

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Madra

Madra (Sanskrit) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-western South Asia whose existence is attested since the Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE).

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Magadha

Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahajanapadas

The Mahājanapadas were sixteen kingdoms and aristocratic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation period. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Mahajanapadas are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Malavas

The Malavas (Brahmi script: 𑀫𑁆𑀫𑀸𑀭𑀯 Mmālava) or Malwas were an ancient Indian tribe.

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Malaya Mountains

The Malaya Mountains were a range of mountains that were mentioned in the Hindu sacred texts like Matsya Purana, the Kurma Purana, the Vishnu Purana, and the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.

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Malla (tribe)

Malla (Prakrit: 𑀫𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀈; Malla; मल्ल​) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Mallian campaign

The Mallian campaign was conducted by Alexander the Great from November 326 to February 325 BC, against the Mallians of the Punjab.

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Mandala 1

The first Mandala ("book") of the Rigveda has 191 hymns.

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Mandala 2

The second Mandala of the Rigveda has 43 hymns, mainly to Agni and Indra chiefly attributed to the Rishi gṛtsamada śaunohotra.

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Mandala 3

The third Mandala of the Rigveda has 62 hymns, mainly to Agni and Indra.

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Mandala 7

The seventh Mandala of the Rigveda ("book 7", "RV 7") has 104 hymns.

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Mandala 8

The eighth Mandala of the Rigveda has 103 hymns.

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Markandeya

Markandeya (translit) is a rishi (sage) featured in Hindu literature.

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Markandeya Purana

The Markandeya Purana (मार्कण्डेय पुराण; IAST) is a Sanskrit text of Hinduism, and one of the eighteen major Puranas.

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Matsya

Matsya (lit) is the fish avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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Matsya (tribe)

Matsya (Pali) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of central South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Matsya Purana

The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism.

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Meluhha

or (𒈨𒈛𒄩𒆠) is the Sumerian name of a prominent trading partner of Sumer during the Middle Bronze Age.

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Michael Witzel

Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mitanni

Mitanni (–1260 BC), earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts,; Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian records, or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) with Indo-Aryan linguistic and political influences. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Mitanni are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Mithila (region)

Mithila, also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges in the south, the Gandaki River in the west and by the foothills of the Himalayas in the north.

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Monarchy in ancient India

Monarchy in ancient India was ruled by a King who functioned as its protector, a role which involved both secular and religious power.

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Multan

Multan is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, located on the bank of river Chenab.

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Names for India

The Republic of India has two principal official short names, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat.

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Nuristan Province

Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto:; Kamkata-vari: Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.

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Nuristanis

The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan.

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Pañcāla

Panchala was an ancient kingdom of northern India, located in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab of the Upper Gangetic plain which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Pañcāla are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Padha

Padha is a village in Karnal district, Haryana, India, with approximately 8,000 inhabitants.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pandava

The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who are central figures of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

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Pandu

Pandu (pale) was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata.

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Parada Kingdom

Pāradas (alternatively Varadas, Parita) was an Iron Age kingdom described in various ancient and classical Indian texts.

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Pauravas

The Pauravas were an ancient tribe in the Indus valley, to which King Porus may have belonged.

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Pragjyotisha Kingdom

Pragjyotisha is a mythological kingdom that is mentioned in a multitude of Hindu epics.

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Prithu

.Chaitravamasa king kayasthas lord prithu incaranation of lord Vishnu satyuga era.

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Proto-Indo-Aryan language

Proto-Indo-Aryan (sometimes Proto-Indic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Aryan languages.

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Proto-Indo-Iranian language

Proto-Indo-Iranian, also called Proto-Indo-Iranic or Proto-Aryan, is the reconstructed proto-language of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European.

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Punjab

Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Puru (Vedic tribe)

The Purus were a Rigvedic tribe or a confederation of tribes that existed between c. 1700–1400 BCE. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Puru (Vedic tribe) are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Ravi River

The Ravi River is a transboundary river crossing northwestern India and eastern Pakistan.

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Rigveda

The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).

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Rigvedic rivers

The Rigveda refers to a number of rivers located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, from Gandhara to Kurukshetra.

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Rudra

Rudra (रुद्र) is a Rigvedic deity associated with Shiva, the wind or storms, Vayu, medicine, and the hunt.

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Saka

The Saka were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin.

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Saraswat Brahmin

Saraswat Brahmins are Hindu Brahmins, who are spread over widely separated regions spanning from Kashmir and Punjab in North India to Konkan in West India to Kanara (coastal region of Karnataka) and Kerala in South India.

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Saraswata Kingdom

Saraswata Kingdom was an ancient kingdom, territory or region that was situated on the banks of the river Sarasvati River during the pre-historic ages. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Saraswata Kingdom are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Saraswati

Saraswati (सरस्वती), also spelled as Sarasvati, is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, flowing water, abundance and wealth, art, speech, wisdom, and learning.

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Sattagydia

Sattagydia (Old Persian: 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁 Thataguš, country of the "hundred cows") was one of the easternmost regions of the Achaemenid Empire, part of its Seventh tax district according to Herodotus, along with Gandārae, Dadicae and Aparytae.

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Saurashtra (region)

Saurashtra, also known as Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast.

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Sauvira Kingdom

Sauvīra was an ancient kingdom of the lower Indus Valley mentioned in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist literature and the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

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Scytho-Siberian world

The Scytho-Siberian world was an archaeological horizon that flourished across the entire Eurasian Steppe during the Iron Age, from approximately the 9th century BC to the 2nd century AD.

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Shakya

Shakya (Pāḷi:; translit) was an ancient clan of the northeastern region of South Asia, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Shatapatha Brahmana

The Shatapatha Brahmana (lit,, abbreviated to 'SB') is a commentary on the Śukla Yajurveda.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Shudra

Shudra or Shoodra (Sanskrit) is one of the four varnas of the Hindu caste and social system in ancient India.

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Shurasena

Shurasena (शूरसेन) is a Yadava ruler of Mathura featured in Hindu mythology.

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Sindh

Sindh (سِنْدھ,; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.

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Sindhu Kingdom

Sindhu Kingdom or simply Sindhu was an ancient kingdom on the Indian subcontinent.

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Solar dynasty

The Solar dynasty or (सूर्यवंश), also called the Ikshvaku dynasty is a legendary Indian dynasty said to have been founded by Ikshvaku.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Stratum (linguistics)

In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through contact.

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Sudas

Sudās Paijavana was an Indo-Aryan tribal king of the Bharatas, during the main or middle Rigvedic period (c. 14th century BCE).

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Surasena

The kingdom of Surasena was an ancient Indian region corresponding to the present-day Braj region in Uttar Pradesh, with Mathura as its capital city. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Surasena are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Sutlej

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

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Taxila

Taxila or Takshashila (Takṣaśilā; Takkasilā) is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Tomar (Rajput clan)

Tomar (also called Tomara) is a clan name, some members of which ruled parts of North India at different times.

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Trigarta Kingdom

Trigarta (also known as Jalandhara) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom based in the region of modern day Punjab.

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Tripiṭaka

Tipiṭaka or Tripiṭaka, meaning "Triple Basket", is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures.

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Turvasu Druhyu and Anu dynasties

The Turvasu dynasty, Druhyu dynasty and the Anu dynasty are the names of three legendary cadet branches of the Lunar dynasty in Hindu literature, featured in the Puranas and the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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Utkala Kingdom

Utkala Kingdom was located in the northern and eastern portion of the modern-day Indian state of Odisha.

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Uttarakuru

Uttarakuru (उत्तर कुरु) is the name of a dvipa ('continent') in ancient Hindu and Buddhist mythology as well as Jain cosmology.

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Vajjika League

The Vajjika (Pāli) or Vrijika League, Confederacy, or Sangha, also called simply Vajji (Pāli) or Vriji, was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribal league which existed during the later Iron Age period in north-east South Asia.

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Vamana

Vamana also known as Trivikrama, Urukrama, Upendra, Dadhivamana, and Balibandhana, is an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.

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Vamana Purana

The Vamana Purana (वामन पुराण, IAST), is an ancient Sanskrit text that is at least 1,000 years old and is one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.

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Vanga Kingdom

Vaṅga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division within the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent. List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes and Vanga Kingdom are Indo-Aryan peoples.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.

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Varna (Hinduism)

Varṇa (वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society.

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Vatsa

Vatsa or Vamsa (Pali and Ardhamagadhi:, literally "calf") was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya.

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Vayu

Vayu (वायु), also known as Vata and Pavana, is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods.

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Vayu Purana

The Vayu Purana (वायुपुराण) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.

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Vṛddhi

Vṛddhi (also rendered vr̥ddhi) is a technical term in morphophonology given to the strongest grade in the vowel gradation system of Sanskrit.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Vedic period

The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.

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Vedic Sanskrit

Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family.

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Vemaka

The Vemaka were an ancient Indian tribe, located north of the larger tribe of the Kuninda in northern India.

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Vidarbha

Vidarbha (Pronunciation: ʋid̪əɾbʱə) is a geographical region in the west Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Videha

Videha (Prākrit: 𑀯𑀺𑀤𑁂𑀳; Pāli:; Sanskrit) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Vishnu Purana

The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism.

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Vishvamitra

Vishvamitra (विश्वामित्र) is one of the most venerated rishis or sages of ancient India.

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Vrishni

The Vrishnis (वृष्णि, Hindi: भेड़, English: Sheep) were an ancient Vedic Indian Gadariya (Shepherd) clan, also known as the Vrishnipala (Hindi meaning Gadariya).It is believed that Vrishni was the son of Satvata, a descendant of Yadu, the son of Yayati.

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Vyākhyāprajñapti

Vyākhyāprajñapti (व्याख्याप्रज्ञप्ति "Exposition of Explanations"), commonly known as the Bhagavati Sūtra (भगवतीसूत्र), is the fifth of the 12 Jain Agamas said to be promulgated by Mahāvīra.

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Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.

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Western India

Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of Republic of India.

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Xuanzang

Xuanzang ((Hsüen Tsang); 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (/), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator.

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Yadava

The Yadava were an ancient Indian people who believed to be descended from Yadu, a legendary king of Chandravamsha lineage.

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Yamuna

The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India.

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Yaudheya

Yaudheya (Brahmi script: 𑀬𑁅𑀥𑁂𑀬) or Yoddheya Gana (Yoddheya Republic) was an ancient militant gana (confederation) based in the Eastern region of the Sapta Sindhu.

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See also

Lists of ancient people

Lists of ethnic groups

References

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