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Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.108

Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.108

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c13.s2.108

⁵ Dr. Surya Kānta draws a distinction between *Ambashṭha* and *Ambashṭha*, regarding the former as a place-name, and the latter as the name of a particular class of people, 'an elephant-driver, a Kshatriya, a mixed caste'. (*B. C. Law* Vol. II, pp. 127ff). To us the distinction seems to be based upon philological conjectures.