List of rigvedas ( acquired from google.com )

1. List of Rigvedas ( Acquired From Google.com ) .
The Aryan tribes mentioned in the Rigveda are described as semi-
nomadicpastoralists.[1] During the Rigvedic period, they formed a warrior society,
engaging in endemic warfare and cattle raids ("gaviṣṭi") among themselves and
against their enemies, the "Dasyu" or Dasa.[2] When not on the move, they were
subdivided into temporary tribal settlements (vish, viś) composed of several villages,
and each village was composed of several families.[3] These settlements were
headed by a tribal chief (raja, rājan) assisted by warriors (kshatra) and a priestly
caste (brahma).[4] The size of a typical tribal settlement was probably of the order of
a few thousand people. The account of theDasharajna battle (Battle of the Ten
Kings) in Mandala 7, hymn 18, mentions 6,666 casualties in a devastating defeat of
a confederation of ten tribes, suggesting that a single tribe could muster several
thousand warriors, while the average size of a whole tribe may have been 3,000-
6,000 (A Late Vedic tribe ofVesali mentioned in the Pali texts refers to 7,000 "rajas",
that is noblemen.
This is a list of Indo-Aryan tribes mentioned in the text of the Rigveda:
List of Tribes
1. Alina people (RV 7.18.7) - They were probably one of the tribes defeated
by Sudas at the Dasarajna,[5] and it has been suggested that they lived to the
north-east of Nurestan, because much later, in the 7th century CE, the land
was mentioned by the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang.[6]The amateur historian S.
Talageri identifies them with the Greeks (Hellenes).[7]
2. Anu is a Vedic Sanskrit term for one of the 5 major tribes in the Rigveda,RV
1.108.8, RV 8.10.5 (both times listed together with the Druhyu) and, much
later also in the Mahabharata.[8] In the late Vedic period, one of the Anu
kings, King Anga, is mentioned as a "chakravartin" (AB 8.22).Ānava,
the vrddhi derivation of Anu, is the name of a ruler in the Rigvedic account ...
at 8.4.1 with the Turvaśa (tribe). The meaning ánu "living, human"
(Naighantu) cannot be substantiated for the Rigveda [9] and may have been
derived from the tribal name.
3. Āyu[10]
4. Bhajeratha[11]
5. Bhalanas- The Bhalanas are one of the tribes that fought against Sudas in
the Dasarajna battle. Some scholars have argued that the Bhalanas lived in
Eastern Afghanistan Kabulistan, and that the Bolan Pass derives its name
from the Bhalanas.[12][13]
6. Bharatas - The Bharatas are an Aryan tribe mentioned in the Rigveda,
especially in Mandala 3 attributed to the Bharata sageVishvamitra and in
and Mandala 7.[14] Bharatá is also used as a name of Agni (literally, "to be
maintained", viz. the fire having to be kept alive by the care of men), and as a
name of Rudra in RV 2.36.8. In one of the "river hymns" RV 3.33, the entire
Bharata tribe is described as crossing over, with their chariots and wagons, at
the confluence of the Vipash (Beas) and Shutudri (Satlej). Hymns by Vasistha
in Mandala 7 (7.18 etc.) mention the Bharatas as the protagonists in

2. the Battle of the Ten Kings, where they are on the winning side. They appear
to have been successful in the early power-struggles between the
various Aryan andnon-Aryan tribes so that they continue to dominate in post-
Rigvedic texts, and later in the (Epic) tradition, the Mahābhārata, the
eponymous ancestor becomes Emperor Bharata, conqueror of 'all of India',
and his tribe and kingdom is called Bhārata. "Bhārata" today is the official
name of the Republic of India (see also Etymology of India).
7. Bhrigus[15]
8. Chedi[16]
9. Dasa (dāsa, 'slave', 'servant')[17]
10.Dasyu (Iranian: Dahyu, mentioned in Latin as: Dahae, in Greek as: Daai)[18]
11.Dṛbhīka[19]
12.Druhyus - The Druhyu were a people of Vedic India. They are mentioned in
the Rigveda,[20] usually together with the Anutribe.[21] Some early scholars
have placed them in the northwestern region.[22] The later texts, the Epic and
the Puranas, locate them in the "north", that is, in Gandhara, Aratta and Setu.
(Vishnu Purana IV.17) The Druhyus were driven out of the land of the seven
rivers by urheimat and their next king Gandhara settled in a north-western
region which became known as Gandhāra. The sons of the later Druhyu king
Pracetas too settle in the "northern" (udīcya) region (Bhagavata 9.23.15-16;
Visnu 4.17.5; Vayu 99.11-12; Brahmanda 3.74.11-12 and Matsya 48.9.).
Recently, some writers[23] have ahistorically asserted that the Druhyu are the
ancestors of the Iranian, Greek or European peoples, or of the Celtic Druid
class.[24] The word Druid (Gallic Celtic druides), however, is derived from
Proto-Indo-European vid "to see, to know' [25] It has also been alleged that the
Rg Veda and the Puranas describe this tribe as migrating
North,.[23][24] However, there is nothing of this in the Rigveda and the Puranas
merely mention that the Druhyu are "adjacent (āśrita) to the North"
13.Gandhari[26]
14.Guṅgu[27]
15.Iksvaku[28]
16.Krivi[29]
17.Kīkaṭa[30]
18.Kuru[31]
19.Mahīna[32]
20.Maujavant[33]
21.Matsya[34]
22.Meenas[35]
23.Nahuṣa[36]
24.Paktha.[37]
25.Pañca Jana/Kṛṣṭi (etc.)
26.Panis (Iranian Parni?)
27.Pārāvata
28.Parsu (Parśu) - The Parsus have been connected with the Persians[38] This is
based on the evidence of an Assyrian inscription from 844 BC referring to the
Persians as Parshu, and the Behistun Inscription of Darius I of
Persia referring to Parsa as the home of the Persians.[39]
29.Pārthava

3. 30.Puru (Pūru)
31.Ruśama
32.Sārasvata
33.Satvant
34.Śigru
35.Śimyu
36.Śiva
37.Srñjaya
38.Śvitna
39.Tritsu The Tritsus are a sub-group of the Puru who are distinct from
the Bharatas mentioned in Mandala 7 of the Rigveda (in hymns 18, 33 and
83). Under king Sudas they defeated the confederation of ten kings led by the
Bharatas at the Battle of the Ten Kings.
40.Turvasa (Turvaśa)The Turvashas are originally Proto-Indo-Europeans who
are linked with the Germanic Tribes in the west.They are from same branch
and separated during migration to east and west.
41.Uśīnara
42.Vaikarṇa
43.Vaśa
44.Vibhindu
45.Viṣānin
46.Vṛcīvant
47.Yadu
48.Yakṣu
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