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² Shāmasastry's trans. of the *Arthaśāstra*, p. 86, n. 6. *cf.* Artemis (Ptolemy, 324), Gordomaris, Loeb, Marcellinus (ii, 389). For another view see *Ind. Ant.*, XII. 273 n. The word *Kārdamika* occurs in the *Mahābhāshya* (IV. 2. 1. Word Index, p. 275); Kramadīśvara, 747; and Kardamila in Mbh. III. 135. 1. The Kārddama river may be identified with the Zarafshan which flowed through the old Achæmenian Satrapy of Bactria or Balkh. The *Uttarakāṇḍa* of the *Rāmāyaṇa* (Chs. 100 and 102) connects a line of Kārddama kings with Bāhli or Bāhlīka (*IHQ.*, 1933, pp. 37 ff.).