Denotes a people who are mentioned in the Bṛhad- āranyaka Upaniṣad Kāpya Patañcala was then living among them. Their name appears elsewhere in Vedic literature, only in that of a branch, the Uttara Madras, the ‘northern Madras,’ who are referred to in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa as living beyond the Himālaya (parena Himavantam) in the neighbourhood of the Uttara Kurus, probably, as Zimmer conjectures, in the land of Kaśmīr. The Madras mentioned in the Upaniṣad were, like the Kurus, probably settled somewhere in Kurukçetra in the Madhyadeáa or ‘Middle Land.’ Cf. Madrag-āra.
noun (masculine) a country to the north-west of Hindūstan proper (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a king (the people) of the country Madra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Śibi (the progenitor of the Madras) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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