The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.121

v1.c24.121

The geographical connexion between India and Persia historically was a matter of fact that must have been known to both countries in antiquity through the contiguity of their territorial situation. The realms which correspond to-day to the buffer states of Afghānistān and Baluchistān formed always a point of contact and were concerned in antiquity with Persia's advances into Northern and North-western India as well as, in a far less degree, with any move of aggrandisement on the part of Hindustān in the direction of Irān¹. Evidence from the Veda and the Avesta alike attests the general fact.