Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c6.s1.28

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1. Mk acd, Vy, Bmd, Mts, Vmn=गान्धारा यवनाश्चैव; Mk b—गान्धारा गबलाश्चैव. Gandhāra=the Rawalpindi and Peshawar Districts. Cf. Raychaudhuri, op. cit., pp. 124 f. The ancient capitals of the country were Takṣaśilā in the Rawalpindi Dist. and Puṣkalāvati (Charsadda near Peshawar), and Uḍabhāṇḍapura (Und near Attock) in the early medieval period. Yavana= Indo-Greek settlements in the north-western part of India and adjoining lands. Cf. Sircar, op. cit., p. 31.