Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.158

Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c6.158

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c6.158

Dvyakṣa (M.B., II, 47, 15). The land of the Dvyakṣas can probably be identified with modern Badakshan on the ground that the word Badakshan is nothing but the Persianised form of Dvyakṣa, both meaning ‘two-eyed’. If this identification is correct then the home of the Kamboja should be placed in Tajekestan and the Pamirs only, and not in Badakshan as well.¹⁵⁶

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Mahābhārata — Sanskrit