Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.5
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.5
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c13.s2.5
It lay in the difficult hill country north of the Kābul river watered by the Khoes, possibly the modern Alishang, and the Euaspla, apparently the Kūnar. The name of the people is derived from the Irānian “*Aspa*,” *i.e.*, the Sanskrit “*Aśva*” (horse) or *Aśvaka*. The Aspasians were thus the western branch of the Aśvakas (Assakenians).¹ The chieftain, *hyparch*, of the tribe dwelt in a city on or near the river Euaspla, supposed to be identical with the Kūnar, a tributary of the Kābul. Other Aspasian cities were Andaka and Arigaeum.²