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Vrikas were ancient people known to [[Panini]]. [[V. S. Agrawala]]<ref>[[V. S. Agrawala]]: [[India as Known to Panini]], 1953, p.443-444</ref> mentions the names of Ayudhjivi [[Sanghas]] in the [[Panini]]'s [[Ashtadhyayi]] Sutras which include '''[[Vṛika]]''' (V.3.115). Their Country was [[Varkania]] or [[Hyrcania]] called [[Gurgan]] in modern [[Persian]]. | '''Vrikas (वृक)''' were ancient people known to [[Panini]] and mentioned in [[Mahabharata]]. [[V. S. Agrawala]]<ref>[[V. S. Agrawala]]: [[India as Known to Panini]], 1953, p.443-444</ref> mentions the names of Ayudhjivi [[Sanghas]] in the [[Panini]]'s [[Ashtadhyayi]] Sutras which include '''[[Vṛika]]''' (V.3.115). Their Country was [[Varkania]] or [[Hyrcania]] called [[Gurgan]] in modern [[Persian]]. | ||
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Vrikas (वृक) were ancient people known to Panini and mentioned in Mahabharata. V. S. Agrawala[1] mentions the names of Ayudhjivi Sanghas in the Panini's Ashtadhyayi Sutras which include Vṛika (V.3.115). Their Country was Varkania or Hyrcania called Gurgan in modern Persian.
Origin
Variants
Jat clans
Mention by Panini
Vrikagarta (वृकगर्त) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [3]
Vrika (वृक), a warrior tribe, is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [4]
Vrikarupya (वृकरूप्य), is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [5]
Vriksha (वृक्ष), vanaspati (वनस्पति), is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [6]
In Mahabharata
Vrika (वृक) has been mentioned in Mahabharata (I.177.9), (V.31.19), (VIII.30.45), (XIII.116.67).
Adi Parva, Mahabharata/Mahabharata Book I Chapter 177 mentions the Kshatriyas came on Swayamvara of Draupadi. Vrika is included in verse (I.177.9). [7]
Udyoga Parva/Mahabharata Book V Chapter 31 mentions that Pandavas were desirous of peace and demanded only five villages: Kushasthala, Vrikasthala, Asandi, Varanavata, and for the fifth any other village to end the quarrel. [8]
Karna Parva/Mahabharata Book VIII Chapter 30 mentions this tribe in derogatory sense as a bias for many clans of Vahika country: "The Karasakaras, the Mahishakas, the Kalingas, the Kikatas, the Atavis, the Karkotakas, the Virakas, and other peoples of no religion, one should always avoid." [9]
Anusasana Parva/Book XIII Chapter 116 gives List of Kings who had abstained from flesh in Karttika month. Vrika is included in verse (XIII.116.67)....These other kings also, viz., Syenachitra, and Somaka and Vrika and Raivata and Rantideva and Vasu and Srinjaya,....did not eat flesh for the month of Karttika." [10]
History
Vijayendra Kumar Mathur[11] writes that Panini mentioned a janapada called Vrika in Punjab. It was probably Vrikasthala, which is the ancient name of Bagpat. Some people believe that Bagpat is derived from Vrikaprastha. Vrikasthala (=Vrikaprastha) was one of five places demanded by Pandavas to end the quarrel.[12]
V. S. Agrawala[13] writes that there is also the possibility that another Persian tribe came to be known in India in Panini’s time who refers to Vrikas as an Ayudhajivi Sangha, a community that lived by the profession of arms. An individual member of this tribe was called in Sanskrit as Vārkeṇya, a term which seems to correspond to Varakāṇa of the Behistun Inscription. The whole tribe was called Vrikāḥ, which corresponds to Varkā in plural number in the same Saka-Haumavarkā in the Naksh-i-Rustam Inscription. The Vrikas thus appear to be a section of warlike Saka tribes. (Cf.ante,pp.443-4).
वृक
वृक (AS, p.869) : पाणिनि द्वारा उल्लिखित गणराज्य जिसकी स्थिति पंजाब या उसके निकटवर्ती क्षेत्र में थी. संभव है यह वृकस्थल हो. [14]
External links
References
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.443-444
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.443-444
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.66
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p. 77, 221, 443, 467
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p. 65
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.210
- ↑ अभिभूः सह पुत्रेण सुदाम्ना च सुवर्चसा, सुमित्रः सुकुमारश च वृकः सत्यधृतिस तथा (I.177.9)
- ↑ कुशस्थलं वृकस्थलम आसन्दी वारणावतम, अवसानं भवेथ अत्र किं चिथ एव तु पञ्चमम Mahabharata (V.31.19)
- ↑ कारः करान महिषकान कलिङ्गान कीकटाटवीन । कर्कॊटकान वीरकांश च दुर्धर्मांश च विवर्जयेत Mahabharata (VIII.30.45)
- ↑ शयेनचित्रेण राजेन्द्र सॊमकेन वृकेण च, रैवतेन रन्ति देवेन वसुना सृञ्जयेन च (XIII.116.67)
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali,p.869
- ↑ कुशस्थलं वृकस्थलम आसन्दी वारणावतम, अवसानं भवेथ अत्र किं चिथ एव तु पञ्चमम Mahabharata (V.31.19)
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.467
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.869