Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.4

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of course, Kābul. Paktyike is the country of the Pakhtū, Pashtū, or Pathāns. The town, which was later celebrated for its spikenard (*Periplus*, § 48), was probably on the Kābul river, which accounts for the fact that the voyagers sailed at first eastwards, as Herodotus says. (See Sir Aurel Stein, *Ancient Geography of Kaśmīr* (1889); H. H. Wilson, *Ariana Antiqua*, p. 137; Lassen, *Ind. Alt.* II. 630; Banbury, *Ancient Geography*, I. 226, note C.)