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the Puranas also we find that a branch of the Satvats was styled Bhoja
"Bhajina-Bhajamāna- divy- Andhaka- Devāvṛidha- Mahūbhoja-Vrishni-samjñaḥ Satvatasya putrā babhūvuḥ.. Mahabhojastvati dharmātmā tasyanvaye Bhoja-Mārtikāvatā babhuvuḥ."
It is further stated that several southern states, Mahishmati, Vidarbha, etc., were founded by princes of Yadu lineage.2 Not only the Bhojas, but the Devavridha branch of the Satvatas finds mention in the Vedic literature. Babhru Daivavṛdha is mentioned in the Aitareya Brahmana as a contemporary of Bhima, king of Vidarbha, and of Nagnajit, king of Gandhara. The Andhakas and Vrishnis are referred to in the Ashtadhyayi of Panini. In the Kauțiliya Arthasastra the Vrishnis are described as a Sangha, i. e., a republican corporation. The Mahabharata, too, refers to the Vrishnis, Andhakas and other associate tribes as a Sangha, and Vasudeva, the Vrishni prince, as Sanghamukhya (Elder or Seignior of the confederacy). The name of the Vrishni corporation (gana) has also been preserved by a unique coin. It is stated in the Mahabharata and the Puranas that Kainsa, like Peisistratus and others of Greek history, tried to make himself tyrant at Mathura by overpowering Krishna-Vasudeva, a scion
the Yadavas, and that
1 Vishnu. IV. 13. 1-6. In Mbh. VIII. 7. 8 the Satvata-Bhojas are located in Anartta (Gujrat).
2 Mat, 43. 10-29; 44. 36; Vayu, 94. 26; 95. 35.
3 Vayu, 96. 15; Vishnu, 13. 3-5.
4
VII. 34.
5 IV. 1. 114; VI. 2. 34,
6
P. 12.
7 XII. 81. 25.
8 Majumdar, Corporate Life in Ancient India, p. 119; Allan, CCAI, pp.
clvf, 281.
