[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [Tribes in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943) › c19.10 # Tribes in Ancient India c19.10 Tribes in Ancient India c19.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19.10) Both Ptolemy and the \*Periplus\* stress the close association of the Ābhīras and the Surāṣṭras. The \*Periplus\* mentions the country of Aberia (doubtless identical with Ābhīra) and its seaboard Syrastrene (= Surāṣṭra); while Ptolemy speaks of Abiria (= Aberia = Ābhīra) as having been included in Indo-Scythia, by which was meant practically the whole of the country along the lower course of the Indus. Indo-Scythia in Ptolemy’s time was divided into three parts, viz. Syrastrēnē (Surāṣṭra), Patalene (= Skt. Pātāla), and Abiria (Skt. Ābhīra),—Abiria being identified with the region east of the Indus, above the insular portion formed by its bifurcation.² - [Previous: c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19.9) - [Next: c19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19.11) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.law-1943.c19.10) · Pramāṇa