Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s32.5

c11.s32.5

The Gāndhāras lived round about Peshawar, the ancient Purushapura, now included in the North-West Frontier province. We are less certain of the location of the other tribes named. The Raṭhikas may be the people of Kathiawad, if the name stands for Rāshṭrika; the governor of this region was known as Rashṭriya in Chandragupta's reign¹. The Peṭenikas or Piṭinikas who are coupled with the Bhojas in Rock Edict XIII must also be looked for in the west; but Peṭenika is not Pratishṭhāna as the identification is ‘phonetically impossible’, and the Bhojas could not be located in Berar. The Nābhakas and Nābhapaṅktis have been plausibly assigned to the Nepalese frontier, and the Andhras and Pārindas were in Eastern Deccan².