The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.55

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³ The settlement of the Khaśas during this period extended in a wide semicircle from Kaṣṭavār in the south-east to the Vitastā valley in the west. The hill states of Rājapurī and Lohara were held by Khaśa families. Stein identified the Khaśas with the ‘modern Khakha tribe, to which most of the petty hill chiefs and gentry in the Vitastā valley below Kaśmīr belong.’ See Stein's Eng. Trans. of the *Rājataraṅgiṇī*, Vol. I, pp. 47-48, footnote on I, 317, and Vol. II, p. 430.