# Salva (India)

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Tribe in ancient India

This article is about the historical tribe. For the kingdom in Indian epic literature, see [Salwa kingdom](/source/Salwa_kingdom).

The **Salva** or **Salvi** tribe is mentioned in [Late Vedic](/source/Vedic_period) texts (such as the [Jaiminiya](/source/Jaiminiya) [Brahmana](/source/Brahmana)) is a tribe that invaded [Kurukshetra](/source/Kurukshetra) and defeated the [Kuru kingdom](/source/Kuru_kingdom),[1] probably c. 900 BCE.[2] The prior history of the Salva tribe is obscure, although they appear to have been associated with the [Trigarta kingdom](/source/Trigarta_kingdom) and the [Punjab](/source/Punjab) region.[3] After invading the Kuru kingdom, the Salvas settled along the [Yamuna](/source/Yamuna) river[4] and the [Alwar](/source/Alwar) region of [Rajasthan](/source/Rajasthan) (near the [Matsya kingdom](/source/Matsya_kingdom)),[5] and by the end of the Vedic period they had eventually adopted Vedic culture as they coalesced with the remaining Kurus and the [Surasena](/source/Surasena) [mahajanapada](/source/Mahajanapada).[6] A passage in the [Karna Parva](/source/Karna_Parva) of the [Mahabharata](/source/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 [Panchalas](/source/Panchala) who can "gather the sense from half-expressed words".[7]

## See also

- [Keśin Dālbhya](/source/Ke%C5%9Bin_D%C4%81lbhya)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Witzel, Michael (1995). ["Early Sanskritization: Origin and Development of the Kuru state"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070611142934/http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf) (PDF). *EJVS*. **1** (4): 21. Archived from [the original](http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs0104/ejvs0104article.pdf) (PDF) on 11 June 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Michael Witzel](/source/Michael_Witzel) (1989), [*Tracing the Vedic dialects*](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/dialects.pdf) in *Dialectes dans les litteratures Indo-Aryennes* ed. [Caillat](/source/Colette_Caillat), Paris, p.142

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Witzel (1989), pp.120 (footnote 320) and 142

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Witzel (1995), p.21

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [H. C. Raychaudhuri](/source/H._C._Raychaudhuri) (1972), *Political History of Ancient India*, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, p.61.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Witzel (1995), p.21

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Raychaudhuri (1972), pp.135-136

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