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² For references to passages in the texts and for bibliographical allusions consult Macdonell and Keith, *Vedic Index*, I, 162 (Kubhā), 199 (Krumu), 238 (Gomatī), and 218–219 (Gandhāra, Gandhārī). In regard to the territory to be located by the Vedic river Sarasvatī, the present tendency among Sanskrit specialists (most recently, for example, Macdonell and Keith, *op. cit.* II, 434–437) is to confine it to India itself and not to follow the suggestions that have been made, on etymological grounds, to connect the region thus watered by the Sarasvatī directly with the region around the Irānian river Harahvaitī of the Avesta, or Hara(h)uvatī of the Old Persian Inscriptions, as a designation of the ancient land of Arachosia.