Jain Journal 1997 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXII, No. 2 October 1997
Thus the cumulative effect of the testimonies of the Kalakacharya Kathanaka and Ptolemy indicates the presence of a Saka colony including Patalene probably under the hegemony of the Imperial Parthians; and the activities of the Sakas or Scythians in Surastra.58
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58. We must add here that there is no evidence suggesting the activities of the Saka-Scythians from the Lower Indus region, where Sagakula was situated in the Punjab area in the 1st century B.C. There is no proper foundation for the theory of Rapson (Cambridge History of India, vol. 1. p 568), Konow (CII, vol. II, pt. I, pp XXXI-XXXII). Tarn (Op. cit., p. 232). Marshall (Taxila, vol. I, pp. 44-45), etc. advocating such activites and connecting the Scytho-Parthian Mause with them.