Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c23.6

c23.6

It is however really curious that Dihaṇḍa, as the name of the famous Gandhāra people, is known from no other source excepting the *Vaijayantī*. This name seems therefore to have been actually based on a wrong reading of the manuscripts of Yādavaprakāśa’s work, whose geographical section is full of mistakes.¹ A people is known not only after the land occupied by them, but very often also after their capital city, and we have to see if the form Dihaṇḍa may be associated with the name of the early medieval capital of the Gandhāra country.