Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c3.18

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Similarly plausible are the suggestions to identify Vaiyāmaka with the Aimakas of Central Afghanistan; Vasati (Ossadioi of the Greeks) with the region north of the Mūlā pass in the Sibi district in Baluchistan; Mauleya with the people on the banks of the Mūlā river and the Mūlā Pass; Hamskayanas with Humza Chitrakas with Chitrak; *Vārisha* with Barisal on the sea coast and the *Pāmsurāshtra* with the kingdom of the Pāns tribe who exist to this day in considerable numbers in several of the tributary Orissa States (Imperial Gazetteer, Vol. XIX. p. 257). The suggested identification of *Sālva* with Subhūta or Sophytes of the Salt range and of the *Vastrapas* with Vastrāpatha in Western India may not be beyond doubt. The location of the Sālvas especially still remains a puzzle.