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 Hara Huna kingdom alongside other locations of kingdoms and republics mentioned in the Indian epics orBharata Khanda | |
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Hara-Huna (White Huns) was an ancient kingdom and inhabited by the HaraHunas tribe close to theHimalayas who had limited interaction with the Indian kingdoms, thus they were identified in the epicMahabharata.
They lived in theXinjiang province ofChina, east ofKashmir. However they were nomadic people who changed their settlements time to time.
The Pandava heroNakula visited this place during his western military campaign for collecting tribute forYudhishthira'sRajasuya sacrifice. This could be a branch of Hara-Hunas migrated to the west of Ancient India.
Nakula, after defeating the mighty Gramaniya that dwelt on the shore of the sea, and theSudras and theAbhiras that dwelt on the banks of theSarasvati River, and all those tribes that lived upon fisheries, and those also that dwelt on the mountains, and the whole of the country called after the five rivers (Punjab), and the mountains called Amara, and the country called Uttarayotisha and the city of Divyakutta and the tribe called Dwarapala, by sheer force, reduced to subjection the Ramathas, theHarahunas, and various kings of the west. (2,31)
NumberlessChinas andSakas and Uddras and many barbarous tribes living in the woods, and many Vrishnis and Harahunas, and dusky tribes of theHimavat, and manyNipas and people residing in regions on the sea-coast came to theRajasuya sacrifice performed byPandava kingYudhishthira. (2,50)
TheVangas andAngas andPaundras andOdras andCholas andDravidas andAndhakas, and the chiefs of many islands and countries on the seaboard as also of frontier states, including the rulers of theSinhalas, the barbarous mlecchas, the natives ofLanka, and all the kings of the West by hundreds, and all the chiefs of the sea-coast, and the kings of thePahlavas and theDaradas and the various tribes of theKiratas andYavanas and Sakras and the Harahunas andChinas andTukharas and theSindhavas and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tanganas and theKekayas and theMalavas and the inhabitants ofKasmira, waited uponYudhishthira, performing various offices in his palace. (3,51)