Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c9.30
Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c9.30
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Kāna (Swāt), 70 Kandhār, 24, 66 Káng-kiu, their grazing ground Tashkent plains, 21, 23. See Kaṅkas. Kāngrā, 88, 89, 94 Kaṅkas, 20; identified with Kang-kiu, the inhabitants of Sogdiana, 23; under the political pressure of the Yūe-chī and Hiung-nu, *ib.*; their country described by Chang Kien, 72; their location in the region of Bokhāra and Samarkand; probable identification with Kangs, a Jat tribe of Panjāb, *ib.* Kansu, 13, 14, 22, 23 Kao-fu, identified with Kābul, 42 Kapiśa, 41, 42 Kapiśa-Kamboja, the identity of the terms, 42, 43-44; alteration suggested in the Kashmīr Recension of the Rāmāyaṇa and Kṣemendra’s Kathāmañjarī, 43 Kāpiśāyanī, a celebrated wine in ancient India, till recently manufactured in Kāfiristān from grapes, 45 Kapūrthalā, 47 Karakorum, 74, 75 Kāraskaras, 47; mentioned by Budhāyana and others, *ib.*; identified with the people living in Kāshkār Valley, *ib.* Karategin, 80 Karezes, subterraneous canals in Kalāt State, 49 Karki, a river in Nepal, 84 Karna, 5 Kārpāsika, probably mentioned in a Sāñchī ins., 40; Ki-pin or Kapiśa called Karpiśaya, 41; their gifts included slave-girls, goat-skins, deer-skins, 45 Karpiśaya, according to Bagchi, the correct form Kapiśaya, 41. See Kārpāsika and Kapiśa. Karuj, near Herāt, 66 Karūṣa, 113