India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.32
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.32
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c7.s5.32
It may be noted that in the time of Pāṇini and as stated by Darius I, in his inscriptions, the Śakas were living beyond the Oxus (*Śaka tyiy paradraya* 'the Śakas to the east of the Caspian Sea, Naksh-i-Rustam Ins.). That region naturally still abounds in *kanthā*-ending place-names, as Samar-kand, Kho-qand, Chim-kand, Tash-kent, Panj-kand, Yar-kand, all indicating Śaka influence.