Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c9.s1.4

c9.s1.4

The eastern peoples (*prāchyas*) are not specified by the *Brāhmaṇa* in the same way as those of the South, the North and the Middle Country. But there can hardly be any doubt that they lived to the east of the *dhruvā madhyamā diś* and thus answer to the *Prasii* of the Greek writers and the confederate nations who dominated the valleys of the lower Ganges and the Son. The most eminent among these nations was Magadha which embraced the modern districts of Patna and Gaya.