Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c6.s1.31

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4. Bmd—पारदा हारहूणाः ; Mk—पारदा हारभूपिकाः ; Vy acde—परिता हारपूरिकाः ; Mts—पारदा हारभूर्तिकाः, c (v.l.)—परेता हारभूपिकाः. Omitted in Vy b. The reading हारहूण is supported by Mbh, II, 32, 12, while Bs, XIV, 33 suggests हारहूर which is also supported by Km. The Pāradas were the Parthians who lived in the Khorasan region. The Hārahūṇas or Hārahūras were probably a branch of the Huns who subjugated the whole land from Central Asia to Central India about the end of the 5th century A. D. Motichandra locates the Hārahūras in the Herat region (op. cit., p. 66).