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	The '''Pulindas''' ([[Sanskrit]]: पुलिंद) were an ancient tribe of [[India]], likely resident in the environs of the [[Vindhya Range]] of Central India.<ref name="raychaudhuri1953">{{Citation \| title=Political history of ancient India: from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty \| author=Hemchandra Raychaudhuri \| year=1953 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| publisher=University of Calcutta \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fN89AAAAMAAJ \| quote=''... Pulindas who are invariably associated with the Nerbudda (Reva) and the Vindhyan region ...''}}</ref> The [[Edicts of Ashoka\|Rock Edicts of Ashoka]] (269 BCE - 231 BCE) mention the Pulindas, their capital Pulinda-nagara, and their neighboring tribes, based on which their capital is sometimes located in present-day [[Jabalpur District]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state.<ref name="bhandarkar2000">{{Citation \| title=Aśoka\| author=Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar \| year=2000 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| isbn=81-206-1333-3 \| publisher=Asian Educational Services \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhlfSZLDjRsC \| quote=''... in Rock Edict XIII ... we have to place them somewhere to the north or the north-east of the Andhras ... In the Vayu-Purana, the southern branch of the Pulindas has been placed side by side with the Vindhya-muliyas ... their capital is mentioned as Pulinda-nagara and their kingdom as contiguous with the Chedi country ... the Jubbulpur District ...''}}</ref> Basak identifies them with the [[hill tribe]]s of the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, more specifically the Bhils.<ref>Radhagovinda Basak, AŚOKAN INSCRIPTIONS, Calcutta, 1959, pp. 75</ref>		The '''Pulindas''' ([[Sanskrit]]: पुलिंद) were an ancient tribe of [[India]], likely resident in the environs of the [[Vindhya Range]] of Central India.<ref name="raychaudhuri1953">{{Citation \| title=Political history of ancient India: from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty \| author=Hemchandra Raychaudhuri \| year=1953 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| publisher=University of Calcutta \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fN89AAAAMAAJ \| quote=''... Pulindas who are invariably associated with the Nerbudda (Reva) and the Vindhyan region ...''}}</ref> The [[Edicts of Ashoka\|Rock Edicts of Ashoka]] (269 BCE - 231 BCE) mention the Pulindas, their capital Pulinda-nagara, and their neighboring tribes, based on which their capital is sometimes located in present-day [[Jabalpur District]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state.<ref name="bhandarkar2000">{{Citation \| title=Aśoka\| author=Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar \| year=2000 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| isbn=81-206-1333-3 \| publisher=Asian Educational Services \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhlfSZLDjRsC \| quote=''... in Rock Edict XIII ... we have to place them somewhere to the north or the north-east of the Andhras ... In the Vayu-Purana, the southern branch of the Pulindas has been placed side by side with the Vindhya-muliyas ... their capital is mentioned as Pulinda-nagara and their kingdom as contiguous with the Chedi country ... the Jubbulpur District ...''}}</ref> Basak identifies them with the [[hill tribe]]s of the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, more specifically the Bhils.<ref>Radhagovinda Basak, AŚOKAN INSCRIPTIONS, Calcutta, 1959, pp. 75</ref>

	Though clearly associated with the Vindhyan region, the Pulindas are sometimes believed to have had multiple tribal branches that ranged up to the [[Himalaya\|Himalayan region]] and [[Assam]].<ref name="sircar1990">{{Citation \| title=Studies in the geography of ancient and medieval India\| author=D.C. Sircar \| year=1990 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| isbn=81-208-0690-5 \| publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers\| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqKw1Mn8WcwC \| quote=''... The Pulindas were a hill tribe usually connected with the Vindhyan range. Partiger notices several branches of the Pulinda tribe, viz. (1) a western branch, (2) a Himalayan branch related to the Kiratas and Tanganas, and (3) a southern branch ...''}}</ref> In the Himalayan region, ancient Indian literature often mentions them in conjunction with the [[Kirata Kingdom\|Kiratas]].<ref name="sircar1990" />		Though clearly associated with the Vindhyan region, the Pulindas are sometimes believed to have had multiple tribal branches that ranged up to the [[Himalaya\|Himalayan region]] and [[Assam]].<ref name="sircar1990">{{Citation \| title=Studies in the geography of ancient and medieval India\| author=D.C. Sircar \| year=1990 \| access-date=2010-05-06 \| isbn=81-208-0690-5 \| publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers\| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqKw1Mn8WcwC \| quote=''... The Pulindas were a hill tribe usually connected with the Vindhyan range. Partiger notices several branches of the Pulinda tribe, viz. (1) a western branch, (2) a Himalayan branch related to the Kiratas and Tanganas, and (3) a southern branch ...''}}</ref> In the Himalayan region, ancient Indian literature often mentions them in conjunction with the [[Kirata Kingdom\|Kiratas]].<ref name="sircar1990" />

	In addition to the Pulindas of Vindhya, the Asokan inscriptions might have also labelled a South Indian people called '''Paladas''' as "Pulindas". Historian Sathianathaier has postulated that the name of [[Pallavas]] was derived from Paladas.<ref>{{citation \|first=R. \|last=Sathianathaier \|chapter=Dynasties of South India \|title=The Classical Age \|edition=Third \|editor1-last=Majumdar \|editor1-first=R. C. \|editor2-last=Pusalkar \|editor2-first=A. D. \|series=History and Culture of Indian People \|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan \|year=1970 \|orig-year=first published 1954 \|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108270 \|pp=256–257}}</ref>

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The '''Pulindas''' ([[Sanskrit]]: पुलिंद) were an ancient tribe of [[India]], likely resident in the environs of the [[Vindhya Range]] of Central India.<ref name="raychaudhuri1953">{{Citation | title=Political history of ancient India: from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta dynasty | author=Hemchandra Raychaudhuri | year=1953 | access-date=2010-05-06 | publisher=University of Calcutta | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fN89AAAAMAAJ | quote=''... Pulindas who are invariably associated with the Nerbudda (Reva) and the Vindhyan region ...''}}</ref> The [[Edicts of Ashoka|Rock Edicts of Ashoka]] (269 BCE - 231 BCE) mention the Pulindas, their capital Pulinda-nagara, and their neighboring tribes, based on which their capital is sometimes located in present-day [[Jabalpur District]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state.<ref name="bhandarkar2000">{{Citation | title=Aśoka| author=Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar | year=2000 | access-date=2010-05-06 | isbn=81-206-1333-3 | publisher=Asian Educational Services | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhlfSZLDjRsC | quote=''... in Rock Edict XIII ... we have to place them somewhere to the north or the north-east of the Andhras ... In the Vayu-Purana, the southern branch of the Pulindas has been placed side by side with the Vindhya-muliyas ... their capital is mentioned as Pulinda-nagara and their kingdom as contiguous with the Chedi country ... the Jubbulpur District ...''}}</ref> Basak identifies them with the [[hill tribe]]s of the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, more specifically the Bhils.<ref>Radhagovinda Basak, AŚOKAN INSCRIPTIONS, Calcutta, 1959, pp. 75</ref>

Though clearly associated with the Vindhyan region, the Pulindas are sometimes believed to have had multiple tribal branches that ranged up to the [[Himalaya|Himalayan region]] and [[Assam]].<ref name="sircar1990">{{Citation | title=Studies in the geography of ancient and medieval India| author=D.C. Sircar | year=1990 | access-date=2010-05-06 | isbn=81-208-0690-5 | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqKw1Mn8WcwC | quote=''... The Pulindas were a hill tribe usually connected with the Vindhyan range. Partiger notices several branches of the Pulinda tribe, viz. (1) a western branch, (2) a Himalayan branch related to the Kiratas and Tanganas, and (3) a southern branch ...''}}</ref> In the Himalayan region, ancient Indian literature often mentions them in conjunction with the [[Kirata Kingdom|Kiratas]].<ref name="sircar1990" />

In addition to the Pulindas of Vindhya, the Asokan inscriptions might have also labelled a South Indian people called '''Paladas''' as "Pulindas". Historian Sathianathaier has postulated that the name of [[Pallavas]] was derived from Paladas.<ref>{{citation |first=R. |last=Sathianathaier |chapter=Dynasties of South India |title=The Classical Age |edition=Third |editor1-last=Majumdar |editor1-first=R. C. |editor2-last=Pusalkar |editor2-first=A. D. |series=History and Culture of Indian People |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |year=1970 |orig-year=first published 1954 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108270 |pp=256–257}}</ref>

==References==
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