Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c5.s4.12

c5.s4.12

13. Paṇi—a tribe that opposed Divodāsa; probably a Nonaryan people noted as traders; seem to have been associated with another people called Bekanāṭa, although the word bekanāṭa is often taken to mean ‘a usurer’. Hillebrandt identifies the Paṇi with the Parnians of Iran just as he regards the Dāsa as the same as the Dahae.