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The Indian Historical Quarterly September 1949

1949

As this people occupied the country between the Oxus and the Jaxartes obviously the writer must have meant by India not the Panjab but Kafiristan as the border of the latter and not of the former would have been approached by Cyrus on his way to the Massagetae. [...] Arrian repeats this statement " and Nearchus the admiral of Alexader practically expresses the same view though not in so many words." On the other hand Arrian asserts that the Indians to the west of the Indus submitted to the Persians." Immediately after this Arrian states that 'the countries which lie to the east of the Indus I take to be India proper and the people who inhabit them to [...] It might be the well known province Sindhu or the region to the north of the Kabul and the west of the Indus river for both of which the use of the name in this period is vouched for by ancient authorities. [...] "These frontier troops were supplemented by a small force of elephants beloning to the Indians who lived this side of the Indus"." The majority of the troops therefore belonged to the country to the west of the Indus. [...] It is interesting to note that the interpretation which is ascribed to Yaska in the Brhaddevata though it is not to be traced in the extant Nirukta finds support in the statement of Agya1yana who is quoted by Haradatta the author of the Padamaiijari commentary on the Kiii4ka of V5mana-Jay5ditya." VI.
history
Pages
80
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Narendra Law view
Achaemenian Rule in India
153-165 R.C. Majumdar view
The Nirukta—Its Recensions
166-174 Bishnupada Bhattacharya view
The Maga Ancestry of Varahamihira
175-183 Dilip Biswas view
The Rule of the Achaemenids in India
184-204 S. Chattopadhyaya view
Jaina Antiquities in Rajgir
205-210 Adris Banerji view
Epigraphic Notes
211-213 R.C. Majumdar view
The Nature of Pusyamitra Sunga’s Rule
214-215 Dasharatha Sharma view
Reviews
216-221 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
222-225 unknown view
Bibliographical Notes
226-227 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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