Niṣādas
group · 2 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Niṣāda · a Niṣāda · fisherman clan · fishermen · the Niṣāda people · the lord of the Niṣādas
spoken of as
1 expressionNiṣāda3 mentions
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Bṛhaspati Smṛti (Sanskrit)
The sorrow of the people, the dismissal of the people, the dialogue with the lord of the Niṣādas, and the turning back of the charioteer —
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The forest-dwelling people ruled by Guha at Śṛṅgaverapura.
There lived a king named Guha, a dear friend of Rāma and equal to him in spirit, born of the Niṣāda people, powerful, and renowned as the lord of that territory.
Hearing that Rāma, that tiger among men, had arrived in his territory, he came forward surrounded by his elders, ministers, and kinsmen.
after that the lord of the Niṣādas, Guha, urged his kinsmen on.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
A mixed-caste group, here the offspring of a Brahmin, given a specific inheritance share.
A Niṣāda who is the only son of a Brahmin is a sharer of a third part;