268 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1908. 
before 1000 B.C., the Pundras had been known to the Aryans, and 
located in East India evidently beyond the Angas 
The statement that the Pundras were ate ts of the sage 
' ; isvamitra would seem to imply that 
(b) Epic period. they had Aryan blood, though degraded ; 
and this opinion survived in the epic period. the Mahabharata 
and Harivamsa,' the Pundras with Angas, Vangas, Suhmas and 
fluenced in one direction by the surrounding tribes of dasyus, while 
the religious faith in the Madhyadesa had been changing in quite 
a differ 
ion, 
In the epic period, the tribe was generally named Pundra 
but variations were used as Pundraka, micas Si Paundraka, cme 
in one instance even Paundrika. The forms Pundra and Paundra 
are found so late as Varahamihira’s Brhat-sambita of the sixth 
centry A.D., Dasa-kuma@ra-carita probably of that century, and 

1 Mahabharata, pr gate Ch. CIV, 52-55; Harivamsa, Harivarnga- 
parvva, Ch. XXXI. "33-42. T quote from the Bangabiasi waiete. reprints of 
the Bombay Texts with the commentaries of Nilakantha, unless otherwise 
eci 
ns 2 Manu-samhité X, 44; MBh., pigreter aman cb XXXV, 18. 
3 The various references may be rity ified ;— 
Paondra—Mahdbhdsya, under Pani oy 2. 52; ce Visaye-"ngah \ 
Vangah A Subd Pundit Kielhor’s Ed. IT, 282. Ramayana, Kiskin- 
dhyakanda, C 1.4 > 12. Ma Naadeune Adi-P°, CIV. 53, 55, 
CXITI, 29; SebiinP, X va ee 22, LII, 16; Bhi gma-P®, IX, 61; 
Karna a-P®., I, 19, xxii a Harivamea, Hariy. ae XXXL 34, 
Bhaviya-parrea, XLVI, 5 56. Prickeaane ¥ 70, IX. 15, X, 14, XI, 
58, XVI,3 asa-kumdra-carita, ucchasa III, (° se p. 125, 1 126, (N. 
Sagar Pres oe ). Visnu-purdna, it 3, 15 ; Markan deya- -Purdna, (transl. 
Bib. Ed.), Pee 325, 327, 329, 331, 334, 358. * Garuda-purina, Lv 13. 
» Adi di-P*,, OLXX XVII, ee Vana-P°, LI, 22; Drona-P°, 
Paundra.— 
IV, 8, tis. “Anusasana- Pp’, XXXYV, ff. Va Visnu-P°, XXXIV, 14, 
LIX tna r 68 ; Bhavisya- P?, , 1, XCII, 1, 7, XCII, 1, 6, XCVII, 
25, CI, 1, 2, 18. Bharata’s Né@tya-sastram, XIII, 32. Br. sam., V, 74, 
80, XIV, 7. Garuda-pur., ee fo 8; Mark.-pur., p. 329. Vayu-pu Us, 
( Anandasrama, Puna Ed) XCIX, 
Pandraka.—MBh., Sab IV, 2, We 18. HV., Harivarnga-P°, 
xX. 42. Mark. ee "| ao ),p. 
Paundraka—Manu- sam., X. 4 wen P°. CLXXXVI, 12; Sabha-P°, 
, XXXIV, il. HV., xGur , 4, XCIII, 20, XCIV, 8 et seq. 
Vienu -pur,, V. 34, 4-27; Bhagavata-pur., - 
Paundrika—MBh., Sabhi- :P°, LII. 16. Cf. Mitkewit, ‘transl, p. 329. 


