The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.69

c5.s2.69

Basati—The country of the Basatis or Besatae, a Tibeto-Burman tribe, living about the modern Gangtok near the eastern border of Tibet (Mbh., Sabhā, ch. 51; Mr. W.H. Schoff's Periplus, p. 279). McCrindle, on the authority of Hemachandra's Abhidhāna, places it between the Indus and the Jhelum (Invasion of India, p. 156 note). It comprised the district of Rawalpindi.