The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c26.127
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³ The name of the people is given by Strabo as the Sydrakai (Strabo XV, C. 687). From C. 701 we gather that these are identical with the Oxydrakai on the Beās (Vipāçā). The Oxydrakai were a people of the plains where the vine does not grow. On the strength of Strabo's assertion that the vine grew among the Sydrakai, to shift the Oxydrakai to the hills, as Dr Vincent Smith does (*J.R.A.S.* October, 1903), is a questionable expedient.