[Mandhātā pushed past] "the prostrate Paurava realm, and pu… - Frederick Eden Pargiter

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[Mandhātā pushed past] "the prostrate Paurava realm, and pushing beyond them westwards, he had a long contest with and conquered the Druhyu king who appears to have been then on the confines of the Panjab, so that the next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country" (PARGITER 1962:262).

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Frederick Eden Pargiter (1852 - 18 February 1927) was a British civil servant and Orientalist.

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The next Druhyu king Gandhāra retired to the northwest and gave his name to the Gandhāra country.

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The river constituted the boundary between the Panjab and the Ganges-Jumna basin.

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