We learn from the Vedic Index: "In some passages the Panis definitely — Rigvedic tribes
"We learn from the Vedic Index: "In some passages the Panis definitely appear as mythological figures , demons who withhold the cows or waters of heaven ... It is difficult to be certain who a Pani was. It is, however, hardly necessary to do more than regard the Panis generally as non-worshippers of the gods favoured by the singers; the term is wide enough to cover either the aborigines or hostile Aryan tribes as well as demons."
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Rigvedic tribes
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From the second or first millennium BCE, Indo-Aryan Vedic tribes turned into most of the population in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent – Indus Valley, Western India, Northern India, Central India, Eastern India and also in areas of the southern part like Sri Lanka and the Maldives through and after a complex process of migration, assimilation of other peoples and language shift.