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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2471

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2471

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c19.2471

Saga Tartary, including Turkestan in Central Asia, is the country of the Sakas According to the Greek geographers, the Sakas lived to the east of Sogdiana now called the Pamir, the country between Bokhara and Samarqand. According to Strabo, the country lying to the east of the Caspian Sea was called Scythia.⁵³