{{Short description|Tribe in ancient India}} {{about|the historical tribe|the kingdom in Indian epic literature|Salwa kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2023}} The '''Salva''' or '''Salvi''' tribe is mentioned in [[Vedic period|Late Vedic]] texts (such as the [[Jaiminiya]] [[Brahmana]]) is a tribe that invaded [[Kurukshetra]] and defeated the [[Kuru kingdom]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Witzel |first=Michael |year=1995 |title=Early Sanskritization: Origin and Development of the Kuru state |journal=EJVS |volume=1 |issue=4 |url=http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611142934/http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf |archivedate=11 June 2007 |pages=21}}</ref> probably {{circa}} 900 BCE.<ref>[[Michael Witzel]] (1989), [http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/dialects.pdf ''Tracing the Vedic dialects''] in ''Dialectes dans les litteratures Indo-Aryennes'' ed. [[Colette Caillat|Caillat]], Paris, p.142</ref> The prior history of the Salva tribe is obscure, although they appear to have been associated with the [[Trigarta kingdom]] and the [[Punjab]] region.<ref>Witzel (1989), pp.120 (footnote 320) and 142</ref> After invading the Kuru kingdom, the Salvas settled along the [[Yamuna]] river<ref>Witzel (1995), p.21</ref> and the [[Alwar]] region of [[Rajasthan]] (near the [[Matsya kingdom]]),<ref>[[H. C. Raychaudhuri]] (1972), ''Political History of Ancient India'', Calcutta: University of Calcutta, p.61.</ref> and by the end of the Vedic period they had eventually adopted Vedic culture as they coalesced with the remaining Kurus and the [[Surasena]] [[mahajanapada]].<ref>Witzel (1995), p.21</ref> A passage in the [[Karna Parva]] of the [[Mahabharata]] praises the Salvas for following the "eternal law of righteousness" but also says that they "need full instruction," unlike the more perceptive Kurus and [[Panchala]]s who can "gather the sense from half-expressed words".<ref>Raychaudhuri (1972), pp.135-136</ref>
==See also== *[[Keśin Dālbhya]]
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[[Category:Ancient peoples of India]] [[Category:Kurukshetra]] [[Category:Vedic period]]