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KINGDOMS IN THE LOWER INDUS VALLEY 257.
21-22. The Xathroi and the Ossadioi :
The Xathroi are according to McCrindle 1 the Kshatri of Sanskrit literature mentioned in the Laws of Manu as an impure tribe, being of mixed origin. V. de Saint-Martin suggests that in the Ossadioi we have the Vaśāti of the Mahābhārata, a tribe associated with the Sibis and Sindhu-Sauvīras of the Lower Indus Valley. Like the Abastanoi, the Xathroi and the Ossadioi seem to have occupied parts of the territory drained by the lower Akesines (Chenāb) and situated between the confluence of that river with the Rāvi and the Indus respectively.
23-24. The Sodrai (Sogdoi) and the Massanoi :
They occupied Northern Sind with contiguous portions of the Pañjāb (Mithan-kot area) and the Bahawalpur state, below the confluence of the Pañjāb rivers. The territories of these two tribes lay on opposite banks of the Indus. The Sodrai are the Śūdra tribe of Sanskrit literature, a people constantly associated with the Ābhiras who were settled near the Sarasvati." Their royal seat (basileion) stood on the Indus. Here another Alexandria was founded by the Macedonian conqueror.
Atri (Samhita, 378) and Bopadev. It is equally clear that the Vaidya problem cannot be solved in the way it has been sought to be done in some recent publications. Due attention should be given to historical evidence bearing on the point like that of Megasthenes and of certain early Chalukya, Pandya, and other epigraphs, e.g. the Talamañchi plates, Ep. Ind. IX. 101 ; Bhandarker's List 1371. 2061' etc.
1 Invasion of Alexander, p. 156 n, 2 VII. 19. 11 ; 89.37; VIII. 44 49. 3 "Abhishāhāh Śūrasenāh Sivayo'tha Vaśātayah" (Mbh., VI. 106. 8).
"Vaśāti Sindhu-Sauvirā itiprāyo' tikutsitah,"
"Gandhārāh Sindhu-Sauvīrāḥ Sivayo'tha Vaśātayah "(Mbh., VI. 51.14). 4 Patañjali, 1. 2.3 ; Mbh., VII. 19.6 ; IX. 37. 1. 0. P. 90-33,
