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GEOGRAPHICAL LEXICON
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Maggura or Mahuara
The Margaras are mentioned in the Brhatsa mhrtao and the Mardrakas in the Mahābhārata.87
Malaya
Along with Sauviras and Saindhavas, the Kurma Purana (x. vii 10) mentions the Hūnas (or Kūnas) and Malayas (or Šalvas) 28 Marahatta
(Sec Supra) Maruya
(Sce Supra). Māsa or Påsa
In cannot be identified. Meda
Meda is described as a trihe of the mlecchas which used to hùnt animals day and night with bow and arion 39
Veda is mentioned in the Mahābhārata is the name of a low caste 40 Thei were thic sca-laung people of the Makian coast 41 Vinuthyamuha
Its exact situation remains unknown. Vlondha
Munday were a large Dravidian tribe in Chota Nagpur ** turunda.
The maid-schants known as Murundis weic brought from here
Flemacandigics Lamräka is another name for lurunda. Murunda is mentioned in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta. Cunningham suggests that perhaps Murundas ac the same as Mundas, one of the abongtial tubes of East India's
Di Stein Konon bulds that Wundel is the latei form of a Saka meaning lordl" ou "maste"; the taim Saha-Murunda possibly stands, therefore, for these Saka lords or chieftains who were ruling in the regions of Surāslid and Uplain at the time of Samudragupta."
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Bi Sorenson, op.cil, P451. 33 far handela Pp 315 ay Bill Bla2765 40 Inde in fahābhāratat p 477 +1 1Risley, The People of India, Calculla, 1908, p. 141. 42 Pargitar, Alärk Purāna, p 329 43 C.A.G.I., p. 582, 44 Latt, Tribe , p. 94 il.
