Manimi
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Manimi (मानिमी) were a Germanic tribe. They were mentioned by Tacitus, in his ethnographic book Germania, where he stated that the Manimi were one of the five most powerful tribes of the Lugii. They lived between the Oder and the Vistula.
Variants
Mention by Panini
Katha-manimi (कठ-मानिमी) is a term mentioned by Panini. [1]
Jat clans
History
The Manimi have been compared to the "Atmonoi" mentioned by Strabo[2] as a branch of the Basternes, and the "Lougoi Omanoi" mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy.[3]
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References
- ↑ V S Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, p.301
- ↑ "Strabo, Geography, BOOK VII., CHAPTER III".
- ↑ Schütte (1917), Full text of "Ptolemy's maps of northern Europe, a reconstruction of the prototypes", Kjøbenhavn, H. Hagerup
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