Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.92

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² *Rāmāyaṇa*, VII. 113. 11; 114. 11; *Sindhor-ubhayataḥ pārśve*. According to *Jātaka* no. 406 the kingdom of Gandhāra included Kaśmīra. Hekataios of Miletus (B.C. 549-186) refers to a Gandaric city called Kaspapyros. Stein (*JASB*, 1899, extra no. 2, 11) equates Kaspapyros with Kaspatyros of Herodotus and says that it must have been situated in that territory where the Indus first becomes navigable, *i.e.*, in the ancient Gandhāra. Kaspatyros was the place at which the expedition under Skylax, sent by Darius to explore the course of the Indus, embarked. Stein (pp. 12-13) rejects the view according to which Kaspapyros represents the Sanskrit Kaśyāpapura from which the name Kaśmīr is said to have been derived. Kāśyapapura as a place-name is known to Alberuni (I 298), but he mentions it as an original designation of Multan. Kaśyapa's traditional connection with Kaśmīr is, however, clear from *Rājataraṅgiṇī*, I, 27.