Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c16.57

c16.57

³ The people who were to the south of the Ambashṭhas are called *S o d r a i* by the Greek writers. (McCrindle, *Alexander*, p. 293). These Sindhi people are identified by Lassen (*Ind. Alt.* II. 144, 177) with *S ū d r a s*. But the form brings it nearer the *S ' a u d r a s* [Śaudrāyaṇas] of the *Gp.* on P. IV. 2. 4.