Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

As regards the Aryavarta we are told that it was bounded on the east by the Kalaka-va on the south by the Pariyatra range on the west by.A.darea and on the north by the Himalayas. [...] The passage in question probably consists of two parts belonging to two different periods that referring to the Cakravatin's domain anterior to the advent of the Maurya power and that describing the social condition slightly prior to the rise of the Gupta supremacy. [...] Thus the Manu—smTti ( X. 44 ) whose composition is placed between the second century B. C. and the second century A. D. name the Pundrakas together with the Yavanas Sakes Paihavas and Kirittas as the Ksatriya races which were degraded to the condition of the Sildras in consequence of their neglect of the rites and the Brahmans. [...] There is now a general consensus of opinion amongst scholars that the Rajputs like most of the Brahmans were originally of non-Indian extraction and that the former were the descendants of foreign peoples who entered India about the beginning of the 6th century A. D. i. e. of the Huhas and the Gurjaras. [...] The contemporaneity of the appearance on the Indian soil of the Hunas and Gurjaras and the gradual migration of both the races from the North towards the East and South traces.