India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c13.19
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c13.19
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Similarly, there is also the possibility that another Persian tribe came to be known in India in Pāṇini’s time who refers to Vṛikas as an *āyudhajīvī Saṅgha*, a community that lived by the profession of arms. An individual member of this tribe was called in Sanskrit *Vārkeṇya*, a term which seems to correspond to *Varakāṇa* of the Behistun Inscription. The whole tribe was called *Vṛikāḥ*, which corresponds to the form *Varkā* in the plural number in the name *Saka-Haumavarkā* in the Naksh-i-Rustam Inscription. The Vṛikas thus appear to be a section of the war-like Saka tribes. (Cf. *ante*, pp. 443-44).