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peoples as Mundas and Suars and has concluded that the Oretes must be the people of Orissa (the Odras, to be more correct). B. C. Law, however, objects to this identification and says :- "We cannot definitely equate the Greek Oretes with the Sanskrit Odra or Udra or Audradeśa."ı But he suggests no other equation.
1. Tribes in Ancient India, p. 335.
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