India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s4.6
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s4.6
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4. *Sindhu*. Sindhu was originally the name of the river, which gave its name to the whole country. The term Sindhu was corrupted to Hi(n)du in the Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I (516-485 B.C.) and to Indus by the Ionian (=Pāṇini's Yavana) Greeks. Sindhu as a *janapada* may be identified with Sind-Sāgar Doāb, the region between the Jhelum and the Indus. Most of it is now the sandy desert of Thal.