Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c9.46

c9.46

Parataṅganas, perhaps connected with the Tanganas, 79; identified with Paraitakenai of Arrian; their home perhaps Karategin, 80 Pardaṇ-damb, probably showing connection with the Pāradas, 53. See Pāradas. *paristomān*, elephant housings, 74 Paramarṣikas, 11-12; equated with Pasiani. Parṇadatta, 105 Paropanisadae (Kābul), ceded by Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, 24 Paropanisus, 87, 91 Parsii, 17, 19 Parsua, 17, 19 Pasiani, a component of Yüe-chi, 16; identified by Tarn with Paras-Parsua, a Persian tribe, 17; identified with Paramarṣikas, 19 Pascima Anūpakas, 18 Pasni, a townlet in Kalāt State, 49 Paśupas, a people akin to modern Kirghiz, 76 Patañjali, his aphorism pointing to the siege of Sāketa and Madhyamikā, 28 Pathāns, 61 Pathānkot, Audumbara coins found there, 88, 99 *patroṛṇam*, cloth manufatured from the fibres of Calosanthes Indica, probably also used for Dacca muslin or the muslin manufactured by the Nāgas of Kaliṅga, 112 *paṭṭajam*, perhaps jute-cloth, 68 Paurakas, linked with Hamsakāyanas, 92; identified with the people of Yasin Valley which is called Poré and the country Poriāki, *ib.* Panjashir Valley, 12, 86 Pearl-fisheries, on the Gulf of Manaar in Simhala, Arvaṭi, Barbara and Pārasika, 117-118 Phalgu, a river identified with Baghlan, 12