Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2455

c19.2455

*Pakkaṇiya or Pakkaṇaya* The Pakkaṇiyas were the maid-servants brought from this country. Pakkaṇiyas are perhaps the same as the Pareikanioi of Herodotus. This is also implied as a counter example to Praskanva in Sūtra (6. 1. 153) and is stated by the Kāśikā to have been the name of a country. The Pareikanioi, who are said to have formed a part of the empire of Darius, may be identified as the ancient inhabitants of modern Ferghana. Geographically Ferghana is situated immediately to the north of Pamir or ancient Kamboja.⁴⁶