India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.72

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.72

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c12.s6.72

While describing Alexander's campaign from Kapiśa towards the Indus through Gandhāra, the Greek historians mention three important war-like peoples, viz. the *Astakenoi*, with capital at Peukelaotis, the *Aspasioi* in the valley of the Kunar or Chitral river, and the *Assakenoi* settled between the Swat and the Panjkora rivers, with capital at Massaga, and more specially in the mountainous regions of the Swat. The Paninian evidence throws light on these three names for the first time:

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