Haihayas : a tribe in the Vindhyās made up of five sub-tribes. They invaded the region between Gungā & Yamunā & took the city of Kāshi [s/a Kārtavirya Haihaya Arjūna]
... much stronger in their action than they have usually been in Europe. The Aryan nations may be divided into three distinct groups, the Eastern of whom the Coshalas, Magadhas, Chedies, Videhas & Haihayas were the chief; the Central among whom the Kurus, Panchalas & Bhojas were the most considerable; and the Western & Southern of whom there were many, small, & rude but yet warlike & famous peoples;... evident not only from the Kurus being the strongest nation of their time but from the significant fact that the Coshalas by this time had faded into utter & irretrievable insignificance. The rule of the Haihayas had resulted in one of the great catastrophes of early Hindu civilization; belonging to the eastern section of the Continent which was always apt to break away from the strict letter of Aryanism,... the Brahmins with the result of a civil war in which their Empire was broken for ever by Parshurama, son of Jamadagni, and the chivalry of India massacred and for the time broken. The fall of the Haihayas left the Ixvaacous & the Bharata or Ilian dynasty of the Kurus the two chief powers Page 293 of the continent. Then seems to have followed the golden age of the Ixvaacous under the beneficent ...
... Dasarathi. It is obvious that Rāma Jamadagnya belonged to the interval between the Krta and Tretā ages, when in fact the Haihayas had their dominion, and the references should be to the Krta age and that interval. 1 The Krta age then ended with the destruction of the Haihayas; the Tretā began approximately with Sagara and ended with Rāma Dasarathi's destruction of the Rāksasas; and the Dvāpara... attributes that to Rāma Jāmadagnya, though ksatriya tradition 1. Op. cit., pp. 175-7. Page 137 shows it really occurred in consequence of the devastating raids of the Haihayas, from which Sagara delivered the land and restored peace... There is no later similar period of calamity that suggests itself as a change of age, but tradition treats Rāma's destruction of Ravana ...
... reach eastward up to Alamgirpur near Delhi. Neither does Mahāpadma of the Nanda dynasty about 150 years earlier, with his conquests - by the Purānic testimony - of the Aikshvākus, Panchālas, Kāśīs, Haihayas, Kalingas, Aśmakas, Kurus, Maithilas, Sūraśenas and Vitihotras seem the right contemporary of the Indus Valley Civilization in its later days of the 17th century B.C. We have to situate Aśoka as ...
... his part, a destroyer of foes, was the illustrious son of Dhruvasandhi; and of the mighty-armed Bharata was born one Asita by name, of whom the following tributary chiefs, viz., the rulers of the Haihayas and the Tālajahghas and the gallant ruler of the Śaśabindus, came to be the enemies. (15-16) In spite of his having arrayed his army against all these the king was (routed and) exiled. He therefore ...
... country have preserved their basic temperaments with a marvellous conservative power; modified & recombined they have been in no case radically altered. Bengal colonised from the west by the Chedies & Haihayas & from the north by Coshalas & Magadhans, contains at present the most gentle, sensitive and emotional of the Indian races, also the most anarchic, self-willed, averse to control and in all things ...
... 596, 597, 603, 604, 605-6 Later (minor) Guptas, 486, 490, 493, 494-5, 605-6 Gushtasp (or Vistaspa), 366, 367 'Gutasya', 44 Gymnetai/Gymnosophists, 241 Haertel, H., i Haihayas, 138, 209 Hailihila, 325, 326 'Hakra assemblage or complex', iii Hakusiri, 584 Hala, 477 Hapta-Hindu (Sapta-Sindhu), 333 Harappā Culture (Indus Valley Civilisation), ii, ...
... it looks. Chandragupta inherited an extensive kingdom from the Nandas, comprising provinces which had belonged to ten Kshatriya dynasties uprooted by Mahāpadma Nanda: Aikshvākus, Pānchālas, Kāśīs, Haihayas, Aśmakas, Kurus, Maithilas, Śurasenas, Vltihotras and Kalihgas. 2 He had only to hold and not 1.Cf. Ibid., pp. 61-62 2."The Rise of Magadhan Imperialism", ibid., p. 32. Page ...
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