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Sindhu Kingdom is mentioned in Indian epics like the Mahabharata and Harivamsa Purana, often alongside the Sauvira kingdom, to be located on the banks of river Sindhu (Indus). It is believed that Sindhu kingdom was founded by Vrishadarbha, one of sons of Sivi.
The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as hind. [5] [6] The word Sind is a Persian derivative of the Sanskrit term Sindhu, meaning "river" - a reference to Indus River. [7] Southworth suggests that the name Sindhu is in turn derived from Cintu, a Dravidian word for date palm, a tree commonly found in Sindh. [8] [9]
Sindhu-Sauvīra (Sanskrit: Sindhu-Sauvīra; Pāli: Sindhu-Sovīra) was an ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom of western South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The inhabitants of Sindhu were called the Saindhavas , and the inhabitants of Sauvīra were called Sauvīrakas .
Sauvīra is an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Late Vedic [3] and early Buddhist literature and the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It is often mentioned alongside the Sindhu kingdom in the lower Indus Valley. Its capital city Roruka is identified with present-day Aror/Rohri in Sindh and is mentioned in the Buddhist literature as a major trading ...
The Rai dynasty (c. 489 –632 CE) was a Buddhist [3] [4] [5] dynasty that ruled the Sindh region preceded by Ror Dynasty. All that is known about the dynasty comes from the Chachnama, a 13th-century Persian work about Sindhi history.
Identification of Rigvedic hydronyms has engaged multiple historians; it is the single most important way of establishing the geography and chronology of the early Vedic period.
Jayadratha (Sanskrit: जयद्रथ, romanized: Jayadratha) is the king of the Sindhu kingdom featured in the Mahabharata. He was married to Dushala, the only sister of the hundred Kaurava brothers. The son of the king Vriddhakshatra, he is killed by Arjuna. He has a son named Suratha. [1]
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.