Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

OTHER SOURCES OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY
cal limits of the regions peopled by the Aryans,
Professor Bradley Keith has also furnished from
the above-mentioned books testimonies showing
that the Bharat tribe which was the hero of the
third and lourth books of Rigveda had now
lost its political importance and its place had
been taken by the Koru tribe. The PanchaJs
living in its neighbourhood had acquired great
importance and these two tribes, in spite of
being newcomers, had become very powerful*
These books also show that the vanguards
of
the Koru tribes had reached the rivers Saraswasti
and Jamuna, but the rest of the tribe lived
in the marshes of the Himalayas and the plains
of the Kashmir valley. They also ruled the banks
of the rivers Sind and Chenab. One of the commentaries
of the above-mentioned books, Keith
Path Brahmana, also tells us that the Panchal
1
tribe consisted of five clans .
These books throw light on the invasions and
conquests of Korus and Panchals. They even
show that when the K)ru tribe entered lmiia,
it moved towards Chitral and Gilgit.~ Bvo Lni^
1. Cambridge History of India, I, 118; also Panmkar, Early
History of India, p. 17.
2. C ambridge History of India I, 118.
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