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{{Short description|Ancient kingdom inhabited by the Hara Huna tribe}}
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'''Hara-Huna''' (White Huns) was an ancient kingdom and inhabited by the Hara [[Huna people|Huna]]s tribe close to the [[Himalayas]] who had limited interaction with the Indian kingdoms, thus they were identified in the epic ''[[Mahabharata]]''.

They lived in the [[Xinjiang]] province of [[China]], east of [[Kashmir]]. However they were nomadic people who changed their settlements time to time.

The Pandava hero [[Nakula]] visited this place during his western military campaign for collecting tribute for [[Yudhishthira]]'s [[Rajasuya]] sacrifice. This could be a branch of Hara-Hunas migrated to the west of Ancient India.

== References in the Mahabharata ==

=== Nakula's conquests ===

[[Nakula]], after defeating the mighty Gramaniya that dwelt on the shore of the sea, and the [[Sudra kingdom|Sudras]] and the [[Abhira kingdom|Abhiras]] that dwelt on the banks of the [[Sarasvati River]], and all those tribes that lived upon fisheries, and those also that dwelt on the mountains, and the whole of the country called after the five rivers ([[Punjab region|Punjab]]), and the mountains called Amara, and the country called Uttarayotisha and the city of Divyakutta and the tribe called Dwarapala, by sheer force, reduced to subjection the Ramathas, the '''Harahunas''', and various kings of the west. (2,31)

=== Presence in Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice ===

Numberless [[China in the Mahābhārata|Chinas]] and [[Scythians in the Mahabharata|Sakas]] and Uddras and many barbarous tribes living in the woods, and many Vrishnis and Harahunas, and dusky tribes of the [[Himalaya kingdom|Himavat]], and many [[Nepa kingdom|Nipas]] and people residing in regions on the sea-coast came to the [[Rajasuya]] sacrifice performed by [[Pandava]] king [[Yudhishthira]]. (2,50)

The [[Vanga kingdom|Vangas]] and [[Anga kingdom|Angas]] and [[Pundra kingdom|Paundras]] and [[Odra kingdom|Odras]] and [[Chola kingdom|Cholas]] and [[Dravida kingdom|Dravidas]] and [[Andhra kingdom|Andhakas]], and the chiefs of many islands and countries on the seaboard as also of frontier states, including the rulers of the [[Sinhala kingdom|Sinhalas]], the barbarous mlecchas, the natives of [[Lanka kingdom|Lanka]], and all the kings of the West by hundreds, and all the chiefs of the sea-coast, and the kings of the [[Pahlava kingdom|Pahlavas]] and the [[Darada kingdom|Daradas]] and the various tribes of the [[Kirata kingdom|Kiratas]] and [[Yavana kingdom|Yavanas]] and Sakras and the Harahunas and [[China in the Mahābhārata|Chinas]] and [[Tushara kingdom|Tukharas]] and the [[Sindhu kingdom|Sindhavas]] and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tanganas and the [[Kekeya kingdom|Kekayas]] and the [[Malava kingdom|Malavas]] and the inhabitants of [[Kasmira kingdom|Kasmira]], waited upon [[Yudhishthira]], performing various offices in his palace. (3,51)

== See also ==

* [[Kingdoms of Ancient India]]
* [[Abhira tribe|Abhira]]s
* [[Huna kingdom]]
* [[Huna (disambiguation)]]

== References ==

*[[Mahabharata]] of [[Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa]], translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

==External links==

{{Tribes and kingdoms of the Mahabharata |state=collapsed}}

[[Category:Kingdoms in the Mahabharata]]

Hara Huna kingdom - Revision history

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