The Geography of the Puranas c11.s2.44

c11.s2.44

i. The Purāṇas mention two janapadas which, according to various references, appear to have occupied the eastern littoral of the Indus. One of them was the Sūdra (Xodraka of the Greeks, expressly mentioned by Ptolemy as a region on the left bank of the Indus). The Sūdras, according to the Mahābhārata occupied the region where the Saraswatī disappeared in the desert. If we take the dry bed of the Hakra as that of the Saraswatī, which is probable, we can identify the Sūdra janapada with the Uch-Khanpur region of Bahawalpur.