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ref., xi. 19; xvi. 22. In a note to his trans- See also Aparântya.' Mention is made of lation, Kern remarks that the Ambash thas the Aparanta people or country in one of the of the eastern division are the Ambaste of Násik inscriptions Archæol. Surv. West. Ind. Ptolemy, vii. 1, 66 seq.; and that they are Vol. IV. p. 109), and in the Junagadh not to be confounded with their namesakes inscription of Rudradâman (Ind. Ant. Vol. in the south-west.
VII. p. 262). And one of the Asöka edicts Aparta, a country in the south-west division, classes the Yavanas, Kambojas, and Gandhå
xiv. 17; misc. ref., v. 80; xiv. 33; xvi. 31. ras as áparánta (id. Vol. XX. pp. 240, 241). This country is mentioned in the Junagadh Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji has said that inscription of Rudradaman (Ind. Ant. Vol. there are reasons for thinking that Sôpârâ, VII. pp. 262, 263).
in the Thana District (see under 'Saarparaka'), Andhra, or Andhra, a country, and the people was the chief place in the Aparânta country
of it, in the south-east division, riv. 8; Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XV. p. 274, misc. ref., xvi. 11 ; xvii. 25; - the lord of and note 3). Andhra, or of the Andhras (Andhra-pati), Aparântya, a people, evidently identical with misc. ref., xi. 59. The Andhras are carried | Aparântaka, q. v.; misc. ref., v. 40, ix. 15. back to the third century B. C. by one of the Arava, a people in the south-west division, edicts of Asoka (Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. pp. 239, xiv. 17. 240, 247, 248). Other early epigraphic Arbuda (the modern Mount Abû), misc. ref., references are to be found in Gupta Inscrip: v. 68; xvi. 31 ; xxxii. 19. tions, p. 230, and Archäol. Sury. West. Ind. Arimêda, a people in the middle country, Vol. IV. p. 127.
xiv. 2. Anga, a country in the south-east division, Arjunảyana, a people in the northern division,
ziv. 8; misc. ref., v. 72; ix. 10; x. 14; xiv. 25; misc. ref., iv. 25; xi, 59; xvi. 22;
xi. 56; xxxii. 15. See under Jathara. xvii. 19. The Arjunayapas are named among Anjana, & mountain in the eastern division, the tribes subjugated by Samudragupta xiv. 5.
(Gupta Inscriptions, p. 14). An early coin Antard vipa, or Antardvipin, a region in the of the Arjanîyanas is figured in Prinsep's northern division, xiv. 25.
Essays, Vol. II. p. 223, Plate xliv. No. 22. Antargiri, a mountain region; misc, ref., v. 42. Arya, a people; misc, ref., v. 42, where Kern
In a note to his translation Kern remarks -- takes the word as meaning "the inhabitants “I am not able to say which part of the of Arya varta," q. v. Himalayan hill country was called Antar- Aryaka, a people in the southern division, giri; it may be Kumaon, or a still more xiv. 15. eastern district. Cf. ch. xvi. 2, and Maha- Aryavarta, the inhabitants of Aryavárta (the bhår. II. ch. xxvii. 3." In xvi. 2, the origi- text uses the nom. plur.), which is a cusnal has bahir-antah-saila-jáh, "the people tomary name for Northern India; misc. ref., beyond and within the mountains ;" note, v. 67. See also uttarapatha. The word "i. e. a part of the Himalaya,"
Aryavarta means 'the abode of the Aryas, Antarvédi, & region; misc, ref., v. 65. Kern or excellent or noble people. It is used to
translates by "the Doab." The name may denote Northern India in the Allahabad apply to any Doab: but it usually denotes inscription of Samudragupta (Gupta Inscripthe country lying between the Ganga and tions, p. 13). In the Múnavadharmasastra, the Yamuna, which is mentioned as Ganga- ii. 22 (Burnell's Translation, p. 18) Aryavarta Yamun-antarála, in lxix. 26, misc. ref.; and is defined as the land between the Himalaya it is used in that sense in the Indôr grant and Vindhya mountains, extending to the
of Skandagupta (Gupta Inscriptions, p. 69). eastern and to the western seas. But a Annvisva, a people in the north-east division, more precise division between Northern and xiv. 31.
Southern India is given by the poet RajaA parantaka (v. l. A parantika)," the people sekhara, who, in the 'Bálarámáyana, Act
of the western marches," a people in the 6 (see V. Sh. Apte's Rajasekhara : his Life western division, ziv. 20; misc, ref., v. 70. and Writings, p. 21), speaks of the river
