The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.218

v1.c15.218

Beyond the Piçācha languages on the north, and beyond the Outer Indo-Āryan Band on the west, Irānian forms of speech prevail. The most important of these, so far as they are represented within the limits of the Indian Empire, are the Pashto of Afghānistān, the name of which preserves the memory of the Πάκτυες mentioned by Herodotus, and Baloch, the main language of Baluchistān.