Indo-Aryan peoples
According to Hindu texts authored in the early Epic Age (from about 1000 BCE), "Kumuda" was the name given to a high tableland located somewhere to the north of "Himavata" (Hindukush or the Himalayas in general), from which the Indo-Aryan peoples may have originally pushed their way southwards into India, and preserved the name in their traditions as a relic of old mountain worship (Thompson )