Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c9.s1.35
Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c9.s1.35
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³ *IA*, xxxii, p. 233. We do not consider here another rather fantastic theory of S. C. Vidyabhusana that the Licchavis were of Iranian origin (*IA*, xxxvii, 1908, pp. 78ff.), since this is evidently impossible. The old theory of B. H. Hodgson, that the Licchavis were "Scythians" (*Collected Essays*, pp. 17ff.) seems equally impossible in the light of our present-day knowledge of the Śakas and other central Asian invaders of India.