Note 3 — Note on Chapter XIII.
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
The word dasyu here means savage, barbarian. These wild mountain tribes called indiscriminately Śavaras, Pulindas, Bhillas &c., seem to have been addicted to cattle-lifting and brigandage. So the word dasyu comes to mean robber. Even the virtuous Śavara prince described in the story of Jímútaváhana plunders a caravan.