Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c8.73

c8.73

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| | | Its one capital was Aritthapura. The other was Jetuttara. | IV, 401; V, 210; VI, 419; VI, 480 *ff.* | on or about the Indus in the neighbourhood of the Alinas, Pakthas, Bhalānas and Viṣāṇins. See *Ved. Ind.*, II, pp. 381-2. Thus these Śiva people were identical with the Siboi of the early Greek writers who also dwelt between the Indus and the Akesines (Asikni) in Alexander's time. Again, the discovery of a steatite relief representing the story of Uśīnara, king of Śibi, as related in the *MBH*, makes it probable that the present Swat (Suvāstu) valley was the home of the ancient Sivis: De, *G. D.*, p. 188. In the Epic times they are shown to have occupied the land to the north of Kurukṣetra: Pargiter, *J. R. A. S.*, |