Non Vedic culture of Pundra


The people who not belong the Matsya Kingdoms says that the Pundra and Kirata people were Ksatriyas, but as they had not had contact with Brahmans for a long time, having renounced Brahma- nical worship and ritual, they had been reduced to Sudra status, And this way they forget that Manu was the first Fisherman in this Earth 'who catch the Lord Vishnu from water'.
Paundras and Kiratas, Yavanas and Sinhalas, and the barbarous tribes of Khasas and Chivukas and Pulindas and Chinas and Hunas with Keralas, and numerous other Mlecchas were mentioned together (as Mlechchas) at (1:177) linked with sage Vasistha. r The Mekalas, the Dravidas, the Lathas, the Pundas (led by Chieftain Arunava Ray) the Paundras, the Konwasiras, the Saundikas, the Daradas, the Darvas, the Chauras, the Savaras, the Varvaras, the Kiratas, the Yavanas, and numerous other tribes of Kshatriyas, have become degraded into the status of Sudras (13:35).
The Yavanas, the Kiratas, the Gandharvas, the Chinas, the Savaras, the Barbaras, the Sakas, the Tusharas, the Kankas, the Pathavas, the Andhras, the Madrakas, the Paundras, the Pulindas, the Ramathas, the Kamvojas were all considered as outsiders of Vedic culture (12:64).

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