Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 62
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(JULY, 1933
Sanskrit authorities group these people along with communities most of whom are identical with those mentioned by Asoka. They also afford data for their location. This will be better understood by comparing the following lists :
Asoka's inscriptions.-Yona-Kambojas (-Kamboyas), Nabhaka-Nabhapamtis
[Gandharas of RP., V.), Bhoja-Pitinikas (=Rathika-Pitinikas of RP., V),
Andhra (=Adha) - Paladas. Råmåyana (K. 43, 4.12).-Kamboja-Yavanas, Sakas, Varadas (=Paradas). Manu (10, 44).-Kambojas, Yavanas, Sakas, Paradas, Pahnavas, Cinas, Kiratas.
Daradas, Khasas. 10 (The reading Pahnava interchanges with Pahlava in the MSS.) Maha-Bharata. Sakas, Kambojas, B&hlikas, Yavanas, Paradas, Kulingas, Tangadas 11 Harivassa.-(Yavanas), Sakas, Tukhåras, Daradas, Paradas, Tangaņas, Khasas,
Pahlavas, and other barbarians' (Mlecchas) of the Himalaya.13 Here, in the Harivanía, we have an express location in the Himalaya for the Paradas. 13 A passage of the Maha-Bhdrata (Sabha p., ch. 52, 2-3) also locates them between Western Tibet (Mandara) and evidently the Hindukush (Meru) range, on the river Sailoda, 14 which can only be the Kunår. I cite here the text :
मेल्मन्दस्योर्मध्ये शैलोदाममितो नदीम्। . येते कीचकवेणुना छायां रम्यामुपासते ॥ खषा एका समाचाहाः प्रदरा दीप-वेहवः।
Tein store agat: rugat: 15 They dealt in 'ant-dug' gold (cf. IA., 4, 225). There can be little doubt that the valley of the Kunår-Chitral river is meant here. By the process of allocation of knowo territories to some of their neighbours, the Paradas would seem to have occupied the area between the region at present peopled by the Kafirs (called Lampikas in Sanskrit literature) and the Mohmands, in the periods of Asoka, of the Ramayana text, and of the Mânava Dharmasastra.16 They seem to have been allied to the Aparitas, for the form Parita is very near them, and the Maha-Bharata (Bhinma p.) reads their corrupt variants Aparantd) and Parantah together :
बाडीका बाटधानाब भाभीराःकालतोचकाः।
अपरान्ताः परान्ताव पड़वा [ परवा अर्ममण्डलाः॥ If this be compared with the Vayu text quoted above, it will appear that the A parantah and Pardntah of the Maha-Bharata stand for the Aparitas and Sadras of the Vayu.17 8 Jayaswal, Hindu Polity, i, 142-145.
The countries mentioned are expressly 'northern (verse 1) and in the Him Alaya : काम्बोज-यवनांश्चैव शकाना पत्तनानि च । अन्वीक्ष्य बरदाश्चव हिमवन्तं विचिन्वय ।
In the previous verse, there are the Mlecchas, Pulindas, Sarasenas, Prasthalas, Bharatas, Kuru, and Madrakas. These Kurus and Madras must be the Uttara-Kurus and Uttara-Madras. The former are located by Ptolemy in the Pamirs. The Purápas mention the oxistence of colonies of Kshatriyas' in that region (Malaya 113. 42).
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The Chinas are the Sina race of Gilgit (L.S.I., IX, 4, p. 5, n. 5). The Daradas aro the modern Darda; the Kiratas are the Kirantis of Nepal.
11 L.S.I., IX, Pt. 4, p. 3. Tangapapura was near Badrinath GarhwAl), se L.S.1., ibid., n. 6. 13 8440 ; L.S.I., ibid., p. 4. 13 L.S.I., ibid., p. 3. 14 Probably the origin of the classical stories of the river Silas. 15 Southern text, ch. 78, verses 78-79. 18 L.S.I., ibid., p. 4. 17 Wilson and Hall, Vishnu Purdpa, ii, 16.
