India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.24

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.24

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c7.s4.24

13. *Ambashṭha.* It is mentioned by Pāṇini in *sūtra* VIII.3.97, and is stated by Patañjali to be implied in *sūtra* IV.1.171 as the name of a *janapada* under a monarchy. The *Mahābhārata* locates them in the north-west and describes them as a kingship. The Ambashṭhas may be taken as Gk. *Abastanoi* or *Sambastai* on the lower course of the Chenab (*Invasion of Alexander*, p. 155).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit
Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit