NEHRA in Rigveda

Nehra is a Rigvedic clan according to the historian Bhim Singh Dahiya. In rigveda it is mentioned as Narya (RV VIJI/24/29). A king of this tribe is mentioned as a great donor, son of Nara (1/112/9) 1/54/6. They are to be identified with Nara clan of the Jats, the Nairi of West Asia. Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser I (ca. 1270 BC) first mention a loose confederation called the Urartu or Nairi in North-East Anatolia, in the region around Lake Van.