Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.478
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.478
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¹ Elphinstone, *An Account of the Kingdom of Kābul*, Vol. II, pp. 375-377; *Bomb. Gaz.* I. 1, 498n; *JRAS*, 1843, 140; *JASB*, 1874, 260n; Wilson, *Vishnu P.*, III. 292. With the expression *assānaṁ āyatanam*, 'land of horses,' used by Pāli texts in reference to the Kambojas (*DPPN*, I. 526, cf. Mbh. vi. 90. 3) may be compared the names Aspasioi and Assakenoi given by classical writers to the sturdy tribes living in the Alishang and Swat valleys in the days of Alexander (*Camb. Hist. Ind.* I. 352n).