History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET June 2012 History
To which tribe did King Sudasa, described in the Rigveda as having defeated ten kings, belong?
AAnu
BDruhyu
CTritsu ✓ Correct
DYadu
Correct answer: (C) Tritsu — King Sudasa belonged to the Tritsu tribe, so the answer is Tritsu.
Explanation
★King Sudasa belonged to the Tritsu tribe, so the answer is Tritsu.
★He is famed for the Battle of the Ten Kings, the Dasarajna of the Rigveda.
★In it Sudasa defeated a confederacy of ten tribes, both Aryan and non-Aryan.
★The battle was fought on the banks of the Parushni, the modern Ravi.
★The Puru tribe was prominent among those defeated.
★The event is recorded in the seventh book of the Rigveda.
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