India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c7.s5.38

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c7.s5.38

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c7.s5.38

³ *Varaṇā* (IV.2.82). It may be identified with the place called Aornos by the Greeks as a fort in the country of the Assakenoi (*Āśvakāyanas*). It may correspond to modern Ūṇa, pronounced Ūṇra in Pashtu, situated a few miles west of the Indus, as pointed out by Sir Aurel Stein who gave its conjec-

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit