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⁵ On the various forms of the name Prasii in Greek and Latin writers,—Πράσιοι, Πραῖσοι, Πραύσιοι, Πράξιοι, Πραξιακοί, Βρήσιοι, Pharrasii,—see Schwanbeck's *Megasthenis Indica*, p. 12, n. 6, and Lassen, *Ind. Alt.* ii, pp. 210–1, n. 1. The Sanskrit is *Prāchya*. As regards the Gangaridae (or Gaggaridae) the view that the name was invented by the Greeks (Lassen, *loc. cit.*) seems improbable.