The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.72

c5.s1.72

Aornos—Ranigat, sixteen miles north-west of Ohind in the Peshawar district of the Punjab (Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India, p. 58), but according to Captain James Abbot, Shah Kote on Mount Mahaban, situated on the western bank of the Indus, about 70 miles to the north-east of Peshawar: modern researches have proved the correctness of Abbot's identification (Smith's Early History of India, p. 63). It is perhaps a corruption of Varana of Panini: there is still a town called Barana (q.v.) on the western bank of the Indus opposite to Attok (Ind. Ant., I, 22).